"When the satisfaction or the security of another……" — 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."
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15 Quotes by 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…
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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…
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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…
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All of us are much more human than otherwise
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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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What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my…
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The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says;…
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It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to…
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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way…
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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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If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is…
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What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never…
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