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The purpose of this article is to review the results of a 2014 survey of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the Adler Graduate School in Richfield, Minnesota. The survey aimed to explore the use of social media and other virtual connectors in Adlerian higher education and professional development, as well as in maintaining general social ties in our society. A total of 170 individuals responded to the 19-item questionnaire. Most respondents were students at the Adler Graduate School, and almost 70 percent reported living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Results of the survey are discussed along with implications for educators and other concerned professionals.

The relational nature of humans and the importance of human society as a stage for human actions and emotions are some of the core assumptions of Individual Psychology. The quality of one’s ties to community is tested constantly, especially during transitions. This article explores the phenomenon of job transition in a context of general life transitions and the role of social media in maintaining one’s ties to community and one’s fulfillment of an Adlerian task of work. This article also investigates modern social media’s ability to strengthen one’s sense of a “net” and, ideally, to create a “netfeeling,” or Gemeinschaftsgefühl .

This article presents a transcript of the lecture “Suicide and Drunkenness” delivered by Alexandra Adler in the British Medical Association Hall, Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, on June 29, 1937. Despite the seemingly narrow topic suggested by the title, Alexandra Adler engages listeners of her lecture in a much broader discussion of the various facets of Individual Psychology, from the progressive nature of melancholia to the relational purpose of morphine and alcohol use, to sleeplessness as a psychological phenomenon. Using clinical cases, and in a manner characteristic of 1930s-era discussions, the author addresses topics that are common in Individual Psychology: the typical pattern of life in neurosis, mistaken beliefs in alcohol and drug users, purpose of symptoms, and the role of social courage. At the same time, the lecture is punctuated by discussions that 21st-century readers likely consider uniquely contemporary, such as the use of medications to treat emotional maladies, telephone therapy, the ethics of paradoxical suggestions in psychotherapy, and the challenges of treating co-occurring conditions.

In this article, the authors revisit the professional relationship, mutual influence, and enduring legacy of two major inspirations on the humanistic psychotherapy movement, Alfred Adler and Abraham Maslow. Starting with their meeting and early relationship and then looking at the characteristic constructs of each man’s theory, the authors expose the basis for a therapeutic collaboration between the two in a current psychotherapy. As both theoreticians held creativity as vital to the well-being of the individual, the final section of the article illustrates the importance of going beyond theoretical extrapolation and applying creativity within the therapeutic setting.