Facts about Harry Stack Sullivan 
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Harry Stack Sullivan (born in Norwich, New York, U.S., died in Paris, France) was a famous Psychologist from USA, who lived between February 21, 1892 and January 14, 1949.
Biography
Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Approaching the psychoanalysis, created the interpersonal school of psychiatry. He has worked with other well-known American psychoanalysts, such as Clara Thompson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Erik H. Erikson and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann.
Sullivan posits that all behavior is the sum of the various motivations that affect every person in a specific time. The sense of choice is a reflection in the consciousness of the convergence of various reasons that lead back to the needs of satisfaction and security.
He was a founder of the William Alanson White Institute, a leading U.S. psychoanalytic institutes, and the journal Psychiatry. He directed the Washington School of Psychiatry from 1936 to 1947.
His contribution on the clinical interview techniques, outlined an approach less nosographic and more interpersonal than classical models, has had much influence in American psychiatry of the '40s and '50s. In its approach, the interview becomes a tool not only medical history, but also to analyze the relationship dynamics used by the subject, and of which he is not sufficiently aware. Overcoming these "selective inattention" against its own relational processes thus becomes part of the therapeutic process.
Among his major contributions have had a significant importance to schizophrenia attempts to extend the forms of psychoanalytic treatment, management of psychiatric wards based on relational processes and not only authoritative, reflection on communication parataxic (or influenced by representations of the previous 'other), and analysis of the centrality of forms of interpersonal interaction in the construction and maintenance of psychological and psychiatric disorders, from this point of view, his lecture was important for the subsequent development of systemic school, in some verses, the relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Harry.
Related authors: Karen Horney, Erik H. Erikson, Erich Fromm
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Stack_Sullivan
Famous quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan (9)
"When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about"
"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism"
"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"
"All of us are much more human than otherwise"
"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along"
"I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions"
"What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it"
"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting"
"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know"
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