Harry Stack Sullivan
Harry Stack Sullivan
Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivanwas an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that the personality lives in, and has his or her being in, a complex of interpersonal relations. Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth21 February 1892
CountryUnited States of America
art people style
Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.
suffering matter ships
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.
becoming determined moments
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.
motivational feelings acting
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
writing emotional childhood
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
successful miserable humans
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
love satisfaction popularity
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.