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
hard-work headache equal
If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
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If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
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What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.
becomes cute-love love security state sweet-love
When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.
mean science wish
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.
advice needs interpretation
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.
stupid believe talking
I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.
self-esteem unfortunate standing
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
humans
All of us are much more human than otherwise
fun optimism trying
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
sports may gains
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.
love-you strange exception
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.
art people style
Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.
suffering matter ships
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.