Circumstances Quote by Harry Stack Sullivan

“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 love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.”

Harry Stack Sullivan

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

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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 he himself…

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

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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 those who…

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All of us are much more human than otherwise

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

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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; and it…

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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 whatever.

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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 - work the…

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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, simple existent…

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