CLICK ON ANY OF THESE IMAGES FOR A FREE STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION OF HYLAND, a digital lifestyle magazine featuring residential decoration, design, architecture, art, travel, fashion, cuisine, good works and reflections.
Issue link: http://digital.hylandmagazine.com/i/353528
HYLAND wouldn't dismiss medications. If the person you are working with feels truly loved and understood, not just hokum, it's a benefit to them. How can they achieve that love? If you've achieved it, you probably don't need much psychotherapy. If you seek it, you need to find a thera- pist with whom a genuine under- standing is achieved. I don't want to pontificate. I started out with psychoanalytic training with a modification in that training, as a Sullivanian (a follower of Henry Stack Sullivan). I also think, and I think this is very impor- tant, it's very good to have a robust sociological background, to know the customs and values of the people you work with and with whom you share your discourse. I came round full circle: I was a sociologist before being drafted in WWII. Because my eyesight was limited I was not given the privilege of combat; I worked in a hospital. It was a change of career for me. I worked in the hospital as someone who didn't think much of psychol- ogy. I was not dispensing medicine; I was one of those few dispensing empathy, although I didn't think of it that way at the time. I was born in 1919, served in WWII, rising from private to corporal. e thing is, it really changed my life; it gave me the G.I. Bill of Rights. After the war I went to University of Chicago to get a Ph.D. en I went to the William Alanson White Insti- tute in New York to get psychoana- lytic training. I had a good life. Did you pursure a particular discipline in psychology? at's a very astute question. e person whose writings affected me most was Harry Stack Sullivan, a psychiatrist with training in psycho- analysis. He spoke and taught; his writings are collected in six books. He had a way of just being clear and plain; psychoanalysis as he under- stands it is social psychology. How does that work with patients? I try to be informed in social psychology, a scientific empirical discipline. Freud understood development from inside his own skull; social psychology looks at people. Freud found out that it's very helpful