The psychiatrist as shaman: Sullivan and schizophrenia.
This paper describes an analogy between the primitive shaman's emotional illness, and its control, and the schizophrenic episodes of Harry Stack Sullivan, the founder of the interpersonal school of psychiatry. Like the primitive shaman, Sullivan partially overcame his illnesses, drawing from his psychoses the insights through which he healed others.
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New York Institute of Technology.
D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008602:Mental Healing; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000266:history*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014481:United States