Anthony Storr
Anthony Storr
Anthony Storrwas an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 May 1920
humanity rodents members
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
attitude cancer positive-thinking
It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.
fall able derivatives
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
creative identity find-me
The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.
order needs might
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships
motivational inspiration
Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
book writing way
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
bipolar lines want
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
imagination solitude
Imagination flourishes best in solitude.
imagination missing desire
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.
emotional support solitude
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.
heaven glimpse courageous
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
running creative assumption
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.
mean people personality
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.