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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

Austrian Psychologist

Born: May 6, 1856

Died: Sep 23, 1939

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Neurosis, Ambiguity, Inability, Tolerate

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Alfred Adler, Anna Freud, Helene Deutsch, Otto Rank, Paul Watzlawick, Viktor E. Frankl, Wilhelm Reich

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