Frases de Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Data de nascimento: 7. Fevereiro 1870
Data de falecimento: 28. Maio 1937
Outros nomes: Alfred W. Adler
Alfred Adler foi um psicólogo austríaco fundador da psicologia do desenvolvimento individual.
Citações Alfred Adler
„O maior perigo na vida é tomarmos precauções excessivas.“
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
citado em "Peter's people", Laurence J. Peter - Morrow, 1979, ISBN 0688034888, 9780688034887 - 223 páginas
Atribuídas
„It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.“
Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)
„Man knows much more than he understands.“
As quoted in A Primer of Adlerian Psychology: The Analytic-Behavioural-Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler (1999) by Harold H. Mosak and Michael P. Maniacci
„Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.“
What Life Should Mean to You (1937), p. 14
„To be human means to feel inferior.“
Statement of 1933, as quoted in Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology (1960) by Benjamin B. Wolman, p. 288
„The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.“
From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" ("Fortschritte der Individualpsychologie", 1923), a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.