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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

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
Every
Responsibility
Awkward
Freedom
Cure
Show
Cures
Shows
Attempt
Stills
Resistance
Vehement
Truth
Patient
Reckon
Still
Tears
Therapeutic
Must
Therefore
Cradle

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