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Notable Neo-Freudians
Four notable neo-Freudians are Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, and Karen Horney. These theorists developed new perspectives on personality that built upon but diverged from some of Sigmund Freud's original psychoanalytic concepts.
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