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Alfred Adler

Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler rejected emphasis of Sigmund Freud on sexuality; his theories that personality arises in subconscious efforts and that from overcompensation for perceived inferiority results neurotic behavior and psychological illness base an Adlerian psychological school.

People recognize emphasis of this medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of individual on the importance of the complex as isolating an element, which plays a key role in development.

This Viennese of the best-known in the western world held a chair in the United States of America. His special merit made clear the interaction between external influences and internal dispositions. He therefore pioneered a holistic approach.

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“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
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“This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.”
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“إن التقدم العلمي ما هو إلا نتيجة لسعي البشر الدائم لتحسين أحوالهم عن طريق معرفة المزيد عن الكون المحيط بهم وتطوير قدراتهم على التعامل معه.”
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“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
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“To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.”
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“He used to say to his melancholia patients:"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
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“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
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“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
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“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
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