The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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