Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral 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
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.