Alfred Adler
Psychologist
1870-02-07 – 1937-05-28
Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.
Books by Alfred Adler
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The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
A Systematic Presentation in Selections from His Writings
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The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Lectures to physicians & medical students
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Quotes by Alfred Adler
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
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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.
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
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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.
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth.
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