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Alfred Adler Psychologist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Austria
  • Born: Feb 7, 1870
  • Died: May 28, 1937

Alfred W. Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority—the inferiority complex—is recognized as isolating an element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered human beings as an individual whole, therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology".

Adler was the first to emphasize the importance of the social element in the re-adjustment process of the individual and who carried psychiatry into the community.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.