Harry Stack Sullivan
Harry Stack Sullivan (New York 1892 - Paris 1949) is a psychiatrist and American psychoanalyst . He is known to have defined psychiatry as “the study of the interpersonal behavior”.
Biography
Sullivan obtains its doctorate in medicine in Chicago in 1917 and, in 1921, starts to work with schizophrenic patients with St Elisabeth Hospital in Washington under the direction of William Alanson White. In 1923, it meets, with which it begins a didactic analysis in 1933. Thompson had been the pupil of Adolf Meyer and had followed itself a didactic analysis with Sandor Ferenczi. In the Thirties, recognizing the influence of social sciences in psychiatry, Sullivan works with the ethnologists Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead and Bronislaw Malinowski and the linguist. In 1936, with Clara Thompson, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Erich Fromm, it creates it. From 1936 to 1947, it directs Washington School Psychiatry off and directs, with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the private clinic Chesnut Lodge where together, with other known analysts (among which Harold Searles and Donald D. Jackson), they develop the principles of a institutional Psychothérapie intended in particular for the Psychotique S and the schizophrenic .
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