"The full story by no means all told": Harry Stack Sullivan at Sheppard-Pratt, 1922-1930.
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) is well known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, but little is known about how he actually worked as a clinician with patients. This article examines a pivotal time in Sullivan's career at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore from 1922 to 1930. Using clinical records as well as published writings, the article focuses on 2 crucial issues that are not fully addressed either in Sullivan's published writings or in past studies of him: first, his treatment as a gay psychiatrist of patients who he believed had homosexual orientations; second, the intellectual and institutional paradigm in psychiatry that influenced his practice. Finally, this article addresses the circumstances surrounding Sullivan's departure from Sheppard-Pratt, suggesting psychiatry's limited confrontation with the social stigmatization of homosexuality.
Wake
Naoko
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Lyman Briggs School of Science, E-189 Holmes Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48825-1107, USA. wake@msu.edu
D015142:Baltimore; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000266:history*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy