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… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion — Anthony Storr Copy Share
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
“[A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr Copy Share
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see… — Anthony Storr Copy Share
