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Anthony Storr

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May 18, 1920 in London, The United Kingdom

died

March 17, 2001

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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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Books by Anthony Storr

Average rating: 3.86 · 964 ratings · 90 reviews · 22 distinct works

	Solitude: A Return to the Self 390 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Music and the Mind 362 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Freud: A Very Short Introduction 341 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1375 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus 370 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Churchill's Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind 416 avg rating — 50 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Psychotherapy 390 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Dynamics of Creation 444 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Human Aggression 391 avg rating — 11 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Integrity of the Personality 400 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Jung by Anthony Storr, Frank Kermode (editor) 320 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Anthony Storr

“It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological....
[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

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“One man's faith is another man's delusion”
― Anthony Storr

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“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

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