He Used To Say To His Melancholia

We Must Never Neglect The Patient's Own Use Of His Symptoms.

Life Is Just The Same As Learning To Swim. Do Not Be Afraid Of Making Mistakes, For There Is No Other Way Of Learning How To Live!

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.

More Important Than Innate Disposition, Objective Experience, And Environment Is The Subjective Evaluation Of These. Furthermore, This Evaluation Stands In A Certain, Often Strange, Relation To Reality.

To See With The Eyes Of Another, To Hear With The Ears Of Another, To Feel With The Heart Of Another. For The Time Being, This Seems To Me An Admissible Definition Of What We Call Social Feeling.