PSYCHOLOGIST

Harry Stack Sullivan

1892 - 1949

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Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892 – January 14, 1949) was an American neo-Freudian psychiatrist and 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". Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Stack Sullivan is the 88th most popular psychologist (up from 103rd in 2019), the 1,852nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,802nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Harry Stack Sullivan ranks 88 out of 235. Before him are Timothy Leary, Paul Watzlawick, Hugo Münsterberg, Ludwig Binswanger, G. Stanley Hall, and Edward C. Tolman. After him are Auguste Forel, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Benjamin Bloom, David McClelland, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and V. S. Ramachandran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Harry Stack Sullivan ranks 66. Before him are Mikhail Kirponos, Johannes Frießner, Juan Negrín, Tamon Yamaguchi, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Germaine Tailleferre. After him are Manuel Roxas, Mikhail Gurevich, Tazio Nuvolari, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, and Alfonsina Storni. Among people deceased in 1949, Harry Stack Sullivan ranks 36. Before him are Gustav Radbruch, Solomon R. Guggenheim, László Rajk, Sarojini Naidu, Nikola Zhekov, and Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are André-Louis Debierne, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Henry McMahon, Valentino Mazzola, José Clemente Orozco, and John Haigh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Stack Sullivan ranks 1,852 out of 20,380. Before him are Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Axeman of New Orleans (null), Cyrus West Field (1819), Lee J. Cobb (1911), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), and Robert J. Flaherty (1884). After him are Tecumseh (1768), Viola Davis (1965), George Benson (1943), Susanna Hoffs (1959), Joe Simon (1913), and Peter Dinklage (1969).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Harry Stack Sullivan ranks 29. Before him are Philip Zimbardo (1933), Mary Ainsworth (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Timothy Leary (1920), G. Stanley Hall (1846), and Edward C. Tolman (1886). After him are Benjamin Bloom (1913), David McClelland (1917), Rollo May (1909), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), Carol Gilligan (1936), and Frederick Herzberg (1923).

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