This term in
Adler's Individual Psychology is
congruent with but must be contrasted to the terms personality and ego in other psychological systems. Adler first used the too easily reified and misunderstood term
life plan but abandoned it in favor of life-style
in order to convey a sense of the creative, artistic side of the development of
the unique individual. The style of
living refers to (1) the person's characteristic way of operating in the social
field, and (2) the basic convictions concerning self, others, and the world
which form the person's schema of biased apperception.*
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*Excerpted with permission from Griffith, Jane & Powers, Robert L. An Adlerian Lexicon - Fifty-Nine Terms Associated With the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
Paperback, 1984
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