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The Neurotic Character (1921)

by Alfred Adler

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Printing is far clearer in this version than the Scholar Select series, but it's paperback and not hardcover. ( )
  Chickenman | Sep 11, 2018 |
A classic work of individual psychology, a bit outdated, but not as much as you would think. But Adler has got to be one of the guys that the term "psychobabble" was coined for. He over-explains things in hyper detail that I think most people who have studied psychology and even those that haven't understand quite readily in far fewer words. It gives me the impression that Adler's verbosity was a symptom of him trying to compensate for his own feelings of academic inferiority in relation to Freud which he had parted ways with and had become a competing figure in the profession of psychoanalysis at the time. Also, these scholar select re-prints often have text that is too small (like this one) or text that is blurry (not this one). Other printings are advised. ( )
  Chickenman | Sep 11, 2018 |
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After I had made the attempt to investigate in the Studie tiber Mindeywertigkeit von Organen the structure and tectonic of organs in association with their genetic basis, their functional capability and destiny, I proceeded, supporting myself upon already available data as well as upon my own experience, to apply the same method in the study of psychopathology. In the book before us are embraced the most important results of my comparative, individual-psychologic studies of the neuroses.
The study of the neurotic character is an essential part of neuro-psychology. Like all other psychic phenomena it can only be understood when taken in connection with the entire psychic life. A cursory knowledge of the neuroses suffices to enable one to discover that which is peculiarly characteristic in them and all writers who have studied the problem of nervousness have laid particular stress upon certain peculiar traits of character.
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Alfred Adler's most important clinical work on psychopathology.
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