What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
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… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share
