Exploring Adler’s Psychology of Human Nature | A 3-Session Course by Gail Debono
Thu, 09 Oct
|Jake Vella Volunteer Centre
Explore what drives us as human beings – from our struggles with inferiority to our search for meaning and belonging. In this 3-session course, Gail Debono guides you through Adler’s inspiring vision of human nature.
Time & Location
09 Oct 2025, 18:30 – 30 Oct 2025, 20:30
Jake Vella Volunteer Centre, Paola Hill, Paola PLA1707
Guests
About the event
This course aims to introduce participants to Alfred Adler’s key ideas as presented in Understanding Human Nature: The Psychology of Personality. Through guided discussion, case illustrations, and philosophical reflection, participants will explore Adler’s concepts of inferiority and superiority, the striving for significance, social interest, and lifestyle formation. The course encourages critical engagement with Adler’s psychology in relation to broader philosophical questions about human nature, freedom, and responsibility.
Course Outline (3 Sessions × 1.5 hours each, every Thursday between 9 and 30 October 2025)
Session 1 – 9 October 2025, 6:30 pm
Alfred Adler and the Psychology of Personality
• Who was Alfred Adler?
• Brief biography and intellectual context (Vienna, Freud, Jung, breakaway).