Harry Stack Sullivan and the Therapy of Connection

“There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck”

Harry Stack Sullivan is one of the forgotten figures in 20th century psychology, less mythologised than Freud, Jung, and Rogers. Yet Sullivan’s ideas and techniques remain relevant in today’s world of fractured relationships, digital isolation, and rising anxiety and depression. One of Sullivan’s key insights about the importance of relationships and connection in mental health was deceptively simple: “mental health is shaped not within the self, but between selves”.

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