Background
Sophie Munk was born in Troppau on 26 May 1881.
Sophie Munk was born in Troppau on 26 May 1881.
Friedrich Adler lived with the family for some time: on the morning that Adler assassinated Austria"s prime minister, he sent them a postcard saying he was in good spirits after leaving the house. I always say this."
She coined the phrase "the courage to be imperfect", first using it at the 1925 Second International Congress of Individual Psychology, and expanding on the idea in later writing. How Women Experience Men (1931) drew on the work of marriage clinics set up by Alfred Adler.
She escaped Austria for Paris in 1938, and then the United States in 1941, where she settled and built a psychological practice in New New York
She became Honorary President of the American Society of Adlerian Psychology, and contributed several articles to its journal, The American journal of individual psychology. She died in 1976 in New York City.