Hi It means a set of ideas that provide a new way of thinking about something - the phrase is used if the ideas have been fairly carefully thought out, discussed and used by others In the early twentieth century, Alfred Adler varied Sigmund Freud's ideas. Freud believed that a person's thought was very much determined by their interaction with others - very often, the person's parents. Adler emphasized the role of the individual, him or herself, in creating their own view of reality.
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