ABSTRACT
In this section I summarize two complementary theoretical perspectives: one contemporary perspective, the New Personology model presented by Theodore Millon, and the Individual Psychology perspective originated by the Viennese psychiatrist and Freud colleague and antagonist, Alfred Adler. These two perspectives are usefully complementary and will provide a helpful perspective from which to illustrate the major premise of the volume. These perspectives are provided with two primary objectives: first, to provide a firm foundation grounded in contemporary evolutionary science (in the case of the Personology Model), and second, to provide a wonderfully useful heuristic model that provides strategies for implementation of the proposed approach (the Adlerian model). To embellish the points made in these chapters, I draw on other models, including the traditional behavioral model and the cognitive and cognitive– behavioral models.
