Self esteem Quote by Alfred Adler

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are…

— Marcel Proust

“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they…

— Proust Marcel

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay…

— Marcel Proust

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the…

— Karl Abraham

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate…

— Abraham Maslow

“However, there is no fixed rule that dictates when and if a symptom will appear. This group includes: •   Excessive shyness •   Diminished emotional responses •   Inability…

— Peter A. Levine

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position,…

— Anonymous

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

“He came to believe that, in addition to getting rid of parts of the self, projective identification was sometimes the only way in which…

— Ved P. Varma

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of…

— Sigmund Freud

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's…

— Alfred Adler

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice,…

— Sam Savage