Harry Stack Sullivan
Harry Stack Sullivan
Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivanwas an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that the personality lives in, and has his or her being in, a complex of interpersonal relations. Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth21 February 1892
CountryUnited States of America
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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
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When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
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