Harry Stack Sullivan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Harry Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892, Norwich, New York - January 14, 1949, Paris, France) was a U.S. psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation (versus the more abstract conceptions of the unconscious mind favored by Sigmund Freud and his disciples). Sullivan was a child of Irish immigrants and allegedly grew up in an anti-Catholic town. This resulted in social isolation which might have been the incentive for his later interest in psychiatry. He attended the Smyrna Union School after graduating there spent two years at Cornell University from 1909. He received his medical degree in Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1917.