Adlerian therapy. According to Adlerian theory, humans are proactive and creative in regard to the development of their style of life (or life-style), the Adlerian language for personality. Because they are proactive and creative, humans concomitantly function like both playwrights and actors in constructing their own personalities within a socially embedded context. Thus, Adlerians believe that humans co-construct the realities to which they respond. An integration of cognitive, constructivist, existential-humanistic, psychodynamic, and systemic perspectives, Adlerian theory is holistic, phenomenological, socially-oriented, and teleological (goal-directed) in its approach to understanding and working with people. I have called Adlerian psychology a relational constructivist theory because it views human knowledge as socially-embedded and relationally distributed but does not negate personal agency or "empty the self." To my mind, Adler's mature theory development (post-World War I) was/is the original positive psychology. If you would like more information about Adlerian therapy, I can send you some of my articles and book chapters. Email me at [email protected]