Editing Harry Stack Sullivan (section)

{{Short description|American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1892–1949)}}
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'''Herbert''' "'''Harry'''" '''Stack Sullivan''' (February 21, 1892 – January 14, 1949) was an American [[neo-Freudian]] [[psychiatrist]] and [[psychoanalysis|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".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/conceptionsofmod00sullrich|title=Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry|last=Sullivan|first=H. S.|publisher=Washington D.C.:William A. White Psychiatric Foundation|year=1947|pages=[https://archive.org/details/conceptionsofmod00sullrich/page/4 4]-5|url-access=registration}}</ref> Having studied therapists [[Freud|Sigmund Freud]], [[Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist)|Adolf Meyer]], and [[William Alanson White]], he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness.<ref>Clara Thompson, "Sullivan and Psychoanalysis" in {{cite book|editor-last=Mullahy|editor-first=Patrick|title=The Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan|publisher=Hermitage House|year=1952|pages=101}}</ref>