Anthony Storr
Anthony Storr
Anthony Storrwas an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 May 1920
depression men odds
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.
thinking mad sane
The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
inspiration writing mind
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
artist order pieces
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.
world-religions may belief
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.
marriage expression giving
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
jealousy loss thinking
The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.
bridges creative behaviour
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.
men delusion one-man
One man's faith is another man's delusion
love life world
All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
men quality paradox
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
writing men creative
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.
men creative may
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.
inspirational men world-religions
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion