Anthony Storr
Anthony Storr
Anthony Storrwas an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 May 1920
bridges creative behaviour
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.
depression men odds
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.
artist order pieces
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.
world-religions may belief
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.
marriage expression giving
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
jealousy loss thinking
The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.
writing men creative
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.
humanity rodents members
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
attitude cancer positive-thinking
It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.
fall able derivatives
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
creative identity find-me
The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.
order needs might
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships
motivational inspiration
Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
bipolar lines want
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.