
Perfectionism Can Be Your Advantage
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Is Perfectionism the Original Sin?
Adler was a hardcore socialist and Freud also at the time, we're going back to 1902. Adler could have just as easily been the figurehead of psychology that Freud is. In the 50s, this psychiatrist named Dr. Karen Horney conflated narcissism with perfectionism because narcissists do have a lot of perfectionist tendencies. And then in the 90s, basically positive psychology begins and that's when we start to get researchers saying, wait a minute, there isn't just one type of perfectionism. This is a multi-dimensional construct.
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