Anthony Storr
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born
May 18, 1920
died
March 17, 2001
place of birth
London, The United Kingdom
about this author
Anthony Storr was an English psychiatrist and author. He was a child who was to endure the typical trauma of early 20th century UK boarding schools. He was educated at Winchester, Christ's College, the University of Cambridge and Westminster Hospital. He qualified as a doctor in 1944, and subsequently specialized in psychiatry.
Storr grew up to be kind and insightful, yet, as his obituary states, he was "no stranger to suffering" and was himself allegedly prone to the frequent bouts of depression his mother had.
Today, Anthony Storr is known for his psychoanalytical portraits of historical figures.
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quotes by Anthony Storr
"[A:]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships. "
— Anthony Storr (Solitude: A Return to the Self)
— Anthony Storr (Solitude: A Return to the Self)
"Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour."
— Anthony Storr
— Anthony Storr
