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
Harry Stack Sullivan quotes about
american-psychologist equal headaches psychiatry work wrong
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.
american-psychologist people whom
What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.
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.
advice needs interpretation
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.
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.
successful miserable humans
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
motivational feelings acting
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
writing emotional childhood
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
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.
humans
All of us are much more human than otherwise
self-esteem unfortunate standing
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
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.