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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
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
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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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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