Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

Harry Stack Sullivan

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient’s, or the subject person’s, private property.

Fashion

Simple

Unique

All of us are much more human than otherwise

Humans

Psychology

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

Exception

Love You

Strange

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.

Art

People

Style

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.

Believe

Stupid

Talking

If you do not 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.

Hard Work

Headache

Science

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Self Esteem

Standing

Unfortunate

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Acting

Feelings

Motivational

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is ‘useful;’ but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

Gains

May

Sports

The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

Mean

Science

Wish

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Becoming

Believe

Childhood

Determined

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Exception

Fashion

Feelings

Fun

Gains

Hard Work

Headache

Humans

Interpretation

Love

Love You

Matter

May

Mean

Miserable

Moments

Motivational

Needs

Optimism

People

Psychology

Satisfaction

Science

Self Esteem

Ships

Shooting

Simple

Sports

Standing

Strange

Stupid

Style

Successful

Suffering

Suggestions

Talking

Trying

Unfortunate

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Wish

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Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

Harry Stack Sullivan

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient’s, or the subject person’s, private property.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

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.

If you do not 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.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is ‘useful;’ but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

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