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Idealists stand apart from the world in the name of their ideal, but this is not, in itself, complex. The ideal is likely to be a simple elaboration that is served by the patient. In other words, idealism is usually a story of subservience, with its usual dilemma and fate, as described in Chapter 7.
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Gustafson, J.P. (1995). More Complex Idealists. In: The Dilemmas of Brief Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1837-2_11
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