"Anxiety is fear of one's self."
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As quoted in Beyond the Blues: Treating Depression One Day at a Time (2000) by Edward F. Haas, p. 119
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Wilhelm Stekel
1868 – 1940
österreichischer Arzt und Psychoanalytiker
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