Harry Stack Sullivan

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan February 21, 1892, Norwich, New York – January 14, 1949, Paris, France was an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist together with psychoanalyst who held that "personality can never be isolated from the complex interpersonal relationships in which [a] adult lives" & that "[t]he field of psychiatry is a field of interpersonal relations under any and any circumstances in which [such] relations exist". Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research throw to helping people with psychotic illness.

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Although Sullivan published little in his lifetime, he influenced generations of mental health professionals, particularly through his lectures at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, outside Washington, DC. Leston Havens called him the nearly important underground influence in American psychoanalysis. His ideas were collected and published posthumously, edited by Helen Swick Perry, who also published a detailed biography in 1982 Perry, 1982, Psychiatrist of America.