The Investigation of the Ethics of Circassian Living in Turkey with Adlerian Therapy’s Basic Concepts

Abstract

One of the most important characteristics of humans is that they are social beings. Human beings pursue their lives as a member of small or large communities, with respect of some rules. As a society which has a strong sense of belonging and commitment that Adler’s approach’s basic concepts, Circassians community produced applied and passed down through generations some sort of rules and norms in order to administer itself in the historical process. This rules and systems of norms in a whole is called as “Xabze”. In this resarch, the social rules of Circassian community that is one of the ethnical groups in Turkey, will be analysed using the basic principles of Adler’s Individual Therapy Approach. In this study, firstly Adler’s Individual Therapy Approach is presented and then the ethics of the Circassian communities is investigated using this approach. As a result it is concluded that there is a connection between ethics of Circassian communities and Adler’s approach’s basic concepts.