ABSTRACT
The present investigation concentrates on a variation of the Adlerian framework for interpreting early recollections (ERs). In the Adlerian approach, an individual’s ERs are viewed as being reflective of his “style of life.” From the thousands of experiences to which the individual has been exposed in his early childhood, he remembers only those recollections which coincide with his current outlook on life (Ansbacher and Ansbacher, 1956). Utilizing the information contained in ERs, a person functioning in a helping capacity is often in a position to draw inferences regarding the helpee’s basic attitudes and concepts of himself, life, and social participation. The usefulness of the Adlerian interpretation of ERs as a therapeutic technique has received extended clinical and research attention (e.g., Mosak, 1958, 1969; Dreikurs, 1967; Verger and Camp, 1970; Nikelly, 1971).
This chapter, “Early Recollections as a Variable in Group Composition and in Facilitative Group Behavior,” from Rule, W. R. and McKenzie, D.H., Small Group Behavior, 8(1), pp. 75-82. Copyright © 1977 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.
