Harry Stack Sullivan

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892 – January 14, 1949) was an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that "personality can never be isolated from the complex interpersonal relationships in which [a] person lives" and that "[t]he field of psychiatry is the field of interpersonal relations under any and all circumstances in which [such] relations exist".[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Sullivan, H. S. (1947). Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry. Washington D.C.:William A. White Psychiatric Foundation. pp. 4-5.
  2. ^ Clara Thompson, "Sullivan and Psychoanalysis" in Mullahy, Patrick, ed. (1952). The Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan. Hermitage House. p. 101.

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