Upright posture as the foundation of individual psychology: a comparative analysis of Adler and Straus.

The characterization of the theoretical foundation of Individual Psychology in terms of upright posture was suggested to the present au thor by one of Adler's most significant childhood experiences: "One of my earliest recollections is of sitting on a bench, bandaged up on account of rickets, with my healthy elder brother sitting opposite me. He could run, jump and move about quite effortlessly, while for me movement of any sort was a strain and an effort" (5, p. 30 ) . The author intends to demonstrate through a comparison of Individual Psychology with the analysis of upright posture by Erwin Straus' that Adler's childhood experience conditioned in a foundational sense his building of a home, i.e., Individual Psychology. The fact that some persons feel at home in Individual Psychology while others find contentment in Psychoanalysis or Analytic Psychology may be clarified by the intuition that the founders of schools of psychology are significantly impressed by different childhood experiences which strike harmonious chords in some (disciples) and