Harry Stack Sullivan Biography

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

Occup.	Psychologist
From	USA
Born	February 21, 1892 Norwich, New York, U.S.
Died	January 14, 1949 Paris, France
Aged	56 years

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan was an American psychiatrist as well as psychoanalyst.

Coming close to the psychoanalysis, produced the interpersonal school of psychiatry. He has worked with various other popular American psychoanalysts, such as Clara Thompson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Erik H. Erikson and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann.

Sullivan assumes that all behavior is the amount of the different motivations that influence everyone in a certain time. The feeling of option is a reflection in the consciousness of the convergence of numerous factors that lead back to the demands of satisfaction as well as safety and security.

He was an owner of the William Alanson White Institute, a leading U.S. psychoanalytic institutes, and also the journal Psychiatry. He directed the Washington School of Psychiatry from 1936 to 1947.

His payment on the professional meeting strategies, described a technique less nosographic as well as a lot more social than classic designs, has actually had much impact in American psychiatry of the '40s as well as '50s. In its approach, the meeting ends up being a tool not just medical history, yet likewise to evaluate the connection characteristics utilized by the topic, and of which he is not completely conscious. Overcoming these "discerning inattention" against its own relational processes hence enters into the restorative process.

Among his significant contributions have had a substantial importance to schizophrenia efforts to expand the forms of psychoanalytic treatment, administration of psychiatric wards based on relational procedures as well as not only authoritative, representation on communication parataxic (or influenced by depictions of the previous 'other), and analysis of the midpoint of forms of social communication in the building as well as maintenance of mental and psychiatric disorders, from this perspective, his lecture was very important for the succeeding growth of systemic school, in some verses, the relational as well as intersubjective psychoanalysis.

Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Harry.

Related authors: Abraham Maslow (Psychologist), Erich Fromm (Psychologist), Karen Horney (Psychologist), Erik H. Erikson (Psychologist)

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9 Famous quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

"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"

"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"