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Harry Stack Sullivan

(1892–1949) Psychiatrist

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Harry Stack Sullivan was a psychiatrist, best known for Conceptions of modern psychiatry.

Quick Facts About Harry Stack Sullivan

Born: February 21, 1892
Died: January 14, 1949
Profession: Psychiatrist
Notable works: Conceptions of modern psychiatry

About Harry Stack Sullivan

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan was an American neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that "personality can never be isolated from the complex interpersonal relationships in which [a] person lives" and that "[t]he field of psychiatry is the field of interpersonal relations under any and all circumstances in which [such] relations exist". 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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your…

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Fun

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The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how…

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Capacity

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When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the…

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Circumstances

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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

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Cement

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As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

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Exception

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What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with…

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Becoming

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All of us are much more human than otherwise

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Humans

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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

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Acting

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The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

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Advice

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Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art;…

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Art

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We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or…

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Detached

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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 -…

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Business

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[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique,…

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Adversity

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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.

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About

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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

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Esteem

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When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.

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Cybersecurity

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It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the…

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Detachment

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When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can…

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Angry

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There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the…

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Consumed

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I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I…

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Annoyed

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