Notable Psychology & Psychiatrists Posters “A...-”
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Notable psychologists and psychiatrists ~

Alfred Adler
b. 2-7-1870; near Vienna, Austria
d. 5-28-1937; Aberdeen, Scotland

Medical doctor and psychologist Alfred Adler is considered to be one of the three founding figures of depth psychology, which emphasizes the unconscious and psychodynamics. The others are Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung.

Alfred Adler quotes ~
• “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.”
• “Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”
• “It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
• “Man knows much more than he understands.”
• “Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.”

Alois Alzheimer
b. 6-14-1864; Marktbreit, Bavaria, Germany
d. 12-19-1915; Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland)

Alois Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of “presenile dementia”, which his colleague Kraepelin would later refer to as Alzheimer's disease.

Alois Alzheimer quotes~
• “Excessive reservations and paralysing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them.”

FYI~ Did you know a compound developed from the daffodil bulb are being used the treatment of Alzheimers?

Author Harriet Beecher Stowe is thought to have suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Lou Andreas-Salomé
b. 2-12-1861; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 1-5-1937; Göttingen, Germany

Psychoanalyst and author Lou Andreas-Salomé had friendships with Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.

Lou Andreas-Salomé quotes
• “Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
• “Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself – only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.”

Roberto Assagioli, MD
b. 2-27-1888; Venice, Italy
d. 8-23-1974; Capolona d'Arezzo

Roberto Assagioli founded the psychosynthesis movement, concentrating of the spiritual goals of “Self-Realization”, and the “inter-individual psychosynthesis ... ‘one humanity’”.

Roberto Assagioli quotes ~
• “Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
• “There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Giclee Print

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
b. c. 980; present day Uzbekistan
d. c. 1037; Iran

Persian Ibn Sina, the foremost physician of his time and considered a father of early modern medicine as well as “the most famous scientist of . . . all races, places, and times.”

Known as Avicenna in the West, he was a polymath - learned in astronomy, chemistry, Hafiz (completely memorized the Quran), logic, mathematics, poetry, philosophy, psychology, physics, science, theology, a Sheikh (elder), soldier, statesman, and maktab (Arabic word for elementary school) teacher.

Avicenna, writing that children can learn better when taught in classes instead of individual instruction from private tutors, said that competition and emulation among pupils, as well group discussions and debates, were useful.