Adlerian (Individual) Psychology: "Not me!" (sociopathy)
"Not me!" is shorthand for the
fundamentally exploitive character-disordered (sociopathic) individual
who engages in "intentional injury of others for [his] own advantage"
(p. 411). The criminal sees what life
requires by way of cooperation, but acts as if it is for suckers, and not for
him or her. Such a person rationalizes
the exemption from the common sense by thinking, for example, "I am too
smart," "I am too special."
The sociopath says "Not me!" and operates against and at the
expense of the community.*
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- Adler, Alfred Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler - A Systematic Presentation in Selections from His Writings Paperback 1989
*Excerpted with permission from Griffith, Jane & Powers, Robert L. An Adlerian Lexicon - Fifty-Nine Terms Associated With the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler Paperback, 1984