biography
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| lived:
| (1870–1937)
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| biography:
| Pioneer psychiatrist, born in Vienna, Austria. He trained in Vienna, and first practised as an ophthalmologist, but later turned to mental disease and became a prominent member of the psychoanalytical group which formed around Sigmund Freud in 1900. His most widely referenced work, Studie über Minderwertigkeit von Organen (1907, trans Study of Organ Inferiority and its Psychical Compensation), aroused great controversy. In 1911 he broke with Freud and investigated the psychology of the individual person considered to be different from others. His main contributions include the concept of the inferiority complex and his special treatment of neurosis as the exploitation of shock. He moved to the USA to teach in 1932. |
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