Alfred Adler and his Adlerian Theories.
Alfred Adler February 7 1870 – May 28 1937 was an Austrian medical doctor, psychologist and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud’s colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. He was the first major figure to break away from psychoanalysis to form an independent school of psychotherapy and personality theory.
Source: Wikipedia.
Some common Adlerisims are;
“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth. ”
“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.”
“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences–the so-called trauma–but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
“Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem taller.”
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