There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Harry Stack SullivanIf you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
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.
Harry Stack SullivanIt is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Harry Stack Sullivan