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Beauty or the beast: The depiction of the physically challenged in literature from an Adlerian perspective

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Ozer, I.J. Beauty or the beast: The depiction of the physically challenged in literature from an Adlerian perspective. J Med Hum 11, 67–73 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01650686

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