Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
Someone
Prescriptions
Used
Cured
Trying
Fourteen
Every
Patients
Think
Patient
Thinking
Follow
Please
Melancholia
Days
Prescription

More quotes by Alfred Adler

Image
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
Alfred Adler
Image
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
Alfred Adler
Image
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
Image
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler
Image
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited.
Alfred Adler
Image
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
Alfred Adler
Image
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
Image
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
Alfred Adler
Image
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Image
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
Alfred Adler
Image
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Adler
Image
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
Alfred Adler
Image
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Image
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler
Image
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler
Image
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Alfred Adler
Image
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
Alfred Adler
Image
Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
Alfred Adler
Image
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
Image
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler