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.
Alfred AdlerAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: February 7, 1870
- Died: May 28, 1937
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