Journal of Individual Psychology, University of Texas Press

The Journal of Individual Psychology provides a forum for the finest dialogue pertaining to Adlerian practices, principles, and theoretical development. Articles relate to theoretical and research issues as well as concerns of practice and application of Adlerian psychological methods. IP is the journal of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology.

The Journal of Individual Psychology is indexed and/or abstracted in the Bibliographic Index of Health Education Periodicals, e-psyche, Gay and Lesbian Abstracts, Guide to PsychINFO, IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), and Psychological Abstracts.

Summer 2008, 64:2
Spring 2008, 64:1
Winter 2007, 63:4
Fall 2007, 63:3
Summer 2007, 63:2
Spring 2007, 63:1
Winter 2006, 62:4
Fall 2006, 62:3
Summer 2006, 62:2
Spring 2006, 62:1
Archives

Summer 2008, 64:2

Editor's Notes: Affirming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals: Erik Mansager
Homosexuality in World Religions: A Case Study in the Psychology of Spirituality: Daniel A. Helminiak
Homosexuality in the Psychology of Spirituality: Comment on "Homosexuality in World Religions" from a Catholic-Adlerian Perspective: Debra Punton
The Psychologization of Spirituality: A Compelling Case for It Has Yet to Be Made: Len Sperry
Rejoinder to Debra Punton and Len Sperry on Helminiak's (2008) "Homosexuality in World Religions: A Case Study in the Psychology of Spirituality": Daniel A. Helminiak
Overcoming Societal Discouragement: Gay Recovering Alcoholics' Perceptions of the Adlerian Life Tasks: Joffrey S. Suprina and Jeremy A. Lingle
Adler's Interpretation of Same-Gender Orientation from a Neurobehavioral Perspective: Lawrence Maucieri and Mark Stone
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in the Student Forum: Sharyl M. Trail, Matthew J. McCreary, Jennifer Gray, Jeff Burt, Jaime Saibil and Wanda Leung
The Invisibility of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children within Adlerian Parenting Materials: Ramona Faith Oswald
Where Is Everybody? Adlerian Parenting Resources and the Exclusion of Parents Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, or Questioning: Robin Kate Fox
Positive Discipline Author's Response to Oswald's and Fox's Critiques: Cheryl L. Erwin

Spring 2008, 64:1

Editors' Notes: Individual Psychology: From Philosophy to Research and Application: Roy M. Kern and William L. Curlette
The 2007 Heinz L. and Rowena R. Ansbacher Memorial Address: Adler's Legacy: Past, Present, and Future: Henry T. Stein
Immanuel Kant's Influence on the Psychology of Alfred Adler: Mark H. Stone
Hadarim: A Description and Evaluation of a School-Based Adlerian Parenting Program in Israel: Joseph Prinz, Sharon Arkin, and Marc Gelkopf
Lifestyle among Abuse-Reporting Outpatients: Dana P. Waters, Jerry F. Westermeyer, Carolyn Gralewski, Mary F. Schneider, and Monica Warkentin
The Brain-Mind-Relationship Connection: An Interview with Daniel J. Siegel: Jon Carlson
A Place Called Home: Al Milliren, Julia Yang, Wes Wingett, and Jennifer Boender
Using Sandtray in Adlerian-Based Clinical Supervision: An Initial Empirical Analysis: Kenneth G. McCurdy and Jesse J. Owen
Using Children's Drawings to Facilitate the Acting "As If" Technique: Richard E. Watts and Yvonne Garza

Winter 2007, 63:4

Editors' Notes: Expanding the Application of Individual Psychology: William L. Curlette and Roy M. Kern
The Relationship between Psychology and Spirituality: An Initial Taxonomy for Spiritually Oriented Counseling and Psychotherapy: Len Sperry and Erik Mansager
Adlerian Family and Couples Therapy: Zivit Abramson
An Adlerian View of Aging: George W. Linden
Toward an Adlerian Approach to Organizational Intervention: James S. Lemonides
Perfectionism and Lifestyle: Personality Differences among Adaptive Perfectionists, Maladaptive Perfectionists, and Nonperfectionists: Kevin Stoltz and Jeffrey S. Ashby
Organizational Development 101: Lessons from Star Wars: Chip Carlson, Fern Clemmer, Tony Jennings, Cheryl-Dean Thompson, and Linda J. Page
Index to Volume 63

Fall 2007, 63:3

Editor's Notes: Couples Therapy, Relationship Education, and Individual Psychology: Paul R. Peluso
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Individual Psychology: A Dialogue Across Theories: Paul R. Peluso and Heather MacIntosh
It Just Takes One: Resolving Power Struggles in Love and Marriage: Richard R. Kopp
Making Love or Making Love Work: Integrating the Crucial Cs in the Games Couples Play: Kenneth G. McCurdy
Couples and Eating Disorders: An Individual Psychology Approach: Susan E. Belangee
Early Recollections: A Compelling Intervention in Couples Therapy: Clair Hawes
A Systematic Approach to Marriage Education: Don Dinkmeyer Jr.
Four Adlerian Metaphors Applied to Couples Counseling: Daniel Eckstein and David Sarnoff
Recreating Sibling Relationships in Marriage: Betty Lou Bettner
The Use of Weather as a Safeguarding Strategy: Alan E. Stewart

Summer 2007, 63:2

Editors' Notes: Narcissism, Imagery, Early Recollections, and Social Interest: Mary Frances Schneider, Roy M. Kern, and William L. Curlette
Invited Response: To Be or Not To Be Adlerian: The Personal and Organizational Dynamics of Establishing One's Theoretical Orientation: Len Sperry
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: His Majesty the Baby: Narcissism through the Lens of Individual Psychology: Michael P. Maniacci
Who Feeds the Narcissism?: Roseanne M. Boldt
Therapy with the Partner of an Individual with Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Mary Frances Schneider and Wendy Sadler
Narcissism and the Empty Self: To Have or To Be: Frank Gruba-McCallister
An Adlerian Perspective on Guided Visual Imagery for Stress and Coping: Jason A. Kaufman
Promoting Insight and Change through the Systematic Use of Early Recollections with Role Play, Art, and Cognitive Reconstruction: Marilyn Strauch
Early Recollections and the Experience of Place: Arthur J. Clark
The Measurement and Clinical Use of Social Interest: Validation of the Sulliman Scale of Social Interest on a Sample of Hospitalized Substance Abuse Patients: Gerald J. Mozdzierz, Richard L. Greenblatt, and Thomas J. Murphy
Psychological Strategies: Understanding and Helping Children Who Manifest Symptoms That Meet the Criteria for the Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis: Francis X. Walton

Spring 2007, 63:1

Editors' Notes: Describing Relationships to Individual Psychology: William L. Curlette and Roy M. Kern
The 2006 Heinz L. and Rowena R. Ansbacher Memorial Address: Am I an Adlerian?: James Robert Bitter
Integrating Lifestyle, the Therapeutic Process, and the Stages of Change: Kevin B. Stoltz and Roy M. Kern
Men's Resistance to Seeking Help: Using Individual Psychology to Understand Counseling-Reluctant Men: Ryan A. McKelley
Positive Psychology and the Constructive Goals of Human Behavior: David Lemire
Individual Psychology and Environmental Psychology: Alan E. Stewart
Early Recollections of Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder: David Tobin, Katherine Wardi-Zonna, and Ann Marie Yezzi-Shareef
The Task of Work in Individual Psychology: Mark H. Stone
Work Relations and Work Effectiveness: Goal Identification and Social Interest Can Be Learned: Eva Dreikurs Ferguson

Winter 2006, 62:4

Editor's Notes: Anxiety and Depression: Paul R. Rasmussen
Of Cookie Jars and Candy Bars: Dysthymia in the Light of Individual Psychology: Harold H. Mosak and Michael P. Maniacci
The Purposefulness of Anxiety and Depression: Adlerian and Evolutionary Views: Paul R. Rasmussen and Gregory J. Dover
Anxiety and Depression: Physiological and Pharmacological Considerations: Judith E. Grisel, Paul R. Rasmussen, and Len Sperry
The Individual Psychology Conception of Depression as a Stress-Diathesis Model: Steve Slavik and James Croake
Individual Psychology Perspectives on the Phenomenology of Depression: Steve Slavik and James Croake
Treatment and Relapse Prevention of Depression Using Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Adlerian Concepts: Byron Waller, Jon Carlson, and Matt Englar-Carlson
Pareto's Principle Applied to Life and Therapy: Paul R. Rasmussen
Index to Volume 62

Fall 2006, 62:3

Editors' Notes: Authors' Expressions of Their Creative Selves: Roy M. Kern and William L. Curlette
Adlerian Social Interest and Positive Psychology: A Conceptual and Empirical Integration: Gary K. Leak and Karin C. Leak
Factors That Predict Students' Perceptions of the Helpfulness of the Incentive-Based After-School Training Program: Diane Jackson-Chapman, Mary Nell McNeese, and Wanda Maulding
Blending Native American Spirituality with Individual Psychology in Work with Children: Darline Hunter and Cheryl Sawyer
Integrating Developmental Counseling and Therapy Assessment with Adlerian Early Recollections: Thomas J. Sweeney, Jane E. Myers, and Julie B. Stephan
The Preference to Excel and Its Relationship to Selected Personality Variables: Alan E. Stewart and Elizabeth A. Stewart
Adlerian Profiles of College Student Drinkers: Todd F. Lewis and Carrie A. Wachter
Adlerian Perspectives on Purging Behavior: Jennifer L. Marshall and Trey J. Fitch
Multidimensional Perfectionism and Personality Profiles: Jeffrey S. Ashby, Terry Kottman, and Kevin B. Stoltz
Biopsychosocial Issues: Psychopharmacology as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorders: Len Sperry
Reports and New Developments: A Framework for Research Studies—Mixed Methods through Combining Bayesian Statistics and Qualitative Research in Individual Psychology: William L. Curlette

Summer 2006, 62:2

Editor's Notes: Consultation and Supervision: John F. Newbauer
Supervision: In the Style of Alfred Adler: Al Milliren, Fern Clemmer, and Wes Wingett
Encouraging the Supervisee's Style of Counseling: An Adlerian Model for Counseling Supervision: Matthew E. Lemberger and Colette T. Dollarhide
Adlerian Group Supervision: Concept, Structure, and Process: H. George McMahon and Kevin A. Fall
Adlerian Supervision: A New Perspective with a Solution Focus: Kenneth G. McCurdy
Adlerian-Focused Supervision for Countertransference Work with Counselors-in-Training: David J. Tobin and Kenneth G. McCurdy
Misalliance Movements in Psychotherapy: Miller Garrison
School Consultation Using Individual Psychology: Don Dinkmeyer Jr.
The Trend of Coaching: Adler, the Literature, and Marketplace Would Agree: Michael Davison and Frank Gasiorowski

Spring 2006, 62:1

Editors' Notes: Creative Applications and Conceptualization of Individual Psychology: Roy M. Kern and William L. Curlette
Individual Psychology and Eating Disorders: A Theoretical Application: Susan E. Belangee
From an Adlerian Perspective: Birth Order, Dependency, and Binge Drinking on a Historically Black University Campus: Teresa G. Laird and Andrea J. Shelton
An Adlerian Model for Sandtray Therapy: Cara R. Bainum, Mary F. Schneider, Mark H. Stone
A Complement to Lifestyle Assessment: Using Montessori Sensorial Experiences to Enhance and Intensify Early Recollections: Sara Anne Cosgrove and Roger A. Ballou
An Empirical Assessment of the Relationship Between Social Interest and Spirituality: Gary K. Leak
Biopsychosocial Issues: Psychotherapy and Medication: Mind-Brain Strategies for Optimizing Treatment with Difficult Clients: Len Sperry
Organizations/Business: Work Relations That Enhance the Well-Being of Organizations and Individuals: Eva Dreikurs Ferguson

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Manuscript submission requires both hard copy and electronic formats. For a timely submission, send an e-mail to jip@gsu.edu with the manuscript attached in MS Word or rich-text format and mail one hard copy of the entire manuscript to the address below, or you can mail four (4) hard copies and an enclosed 3.5-inch diskette with the manuscript in MS Word or rich-text format to the address below. Both the hard copy and e-mail submissions should include a mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and a short biographical statement (e.g., 3 sentences) for each author of the manuscript. The author's name or authors' names should appear on the title page only. Any missing information will delay review of the manuscript.

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The Journal of Individual Psychology
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