- Traditional psychology is aetiology where they look for causes and explanations for things. - Adlerian psychology is teleological and is the study of purpose of something. - For example when someone starts shouting a aetiological view would assume that they were angry hence they were shouting. A teleological view would assume that you in order to fulfil the goal of shouting, you created the emotion of anger. --- This is the difference between ‘aetiology’ (the study of causation) and teleology (the study of the purpose of a given phenomenon, rather than its cause). Everything you have been telling me is based in aetiology. As long as we stay in aetiology, we will not take a single step forward. - [[The Courage To Be Disliked]]