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Alfred Adler.
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Neil Postman
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G. Stanley Hall.
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist
Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
Lawrence Kohlberg
American psychologist
Arnold Gesell
American psychologist
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist
Louise Bates Ames
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Melanie Klein
British psychologist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
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James Comer
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E. Mavis Hetherington
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