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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.

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
Trying
Fourteen
Every
Patients
Think
Patient
Thinking
Follow
Please
Melancholia
Days
Prescription
Someone
Prescriptions
Used
Cured

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