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Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
Always
Sight
Idol
Unhampered
Losing
Neurotic
Crutch
Personality
Whereas
Dispense
Normal
Ideal
Clings
Fiction
Medical
Reckon
Ready
Crosses
Meanwhile
Reality
Principle
Guiding
Person
Keeps
Neurosis

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