Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.

Anthony Storr

Background and education

Born in London, Storr was educated at Winchester College, Christ's College, Cambridge, and Westminster Hospital.[1][2] He was in the first cohort of medics to train in Jungian analysis at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London.[3]

Oxford

In 1974, Storr moved from private practice to a teaching appointment at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, until his retirement in 1984.[1]

Personal

Storr was, as one of his obituarists observed, "no stranger to suffering".[1] He married twice, to Catherine Cole (who became a children's writer under her married name) in 1942 and writer Catherine Peters in 1970 after the first marriage ended in divorce.[4]

Distinctions

Works

In his books, Storr explored the secrets of the dark sides of the human psyche – sexual deviations (Sexual Deviation, 1964), aggression (Human Aggression,1968), and destructiveness (Human Destructiveness, 1972). At the same time, he saw the possibility of creative use of these spontaneous drives and directing them towards sports, scientific and artistic feats (The Dynamics of Creation, 1972).[2][4]

In his final book Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: The Power and Charisma of Gurus (1996) Storr tracks typical patterns, often involving psychotic disorders that shape the development of the guru.[5] He challenges Jesus' mental health by implying that there are psychological similarities between crazy "messiahs" such as Jim Jones, David Koresh, and respected religious leaders, including Jesus.[4] His study is an attempt to look at Jesus as one of many gurus.[6]

Publications
  • The Integrity of the Personality (1961) ISBN 978-0-345-37585-8
  • Sexual Deviation (1964) ISBN 978-0-14-020649-4
  • Human Aggression (1968) ISBN 978-0-689-10261-5
  • Human Destructiveness (1972) ISBN 978-0-435-82190-6
  • The Dynamics of Creation (1972) ISBN 978-0-689-10455-8
  • Jung (1973) ISBN 0-00-633166-1
  • The Essential Jung (1983) ISBN 0-691-08615-X
  • The School of Genius (1988) ISBN 90-254-6789-X
  • Solitude: A Return to the Self (1988) ISBN 0-00-654349-9 — paperback retitling of The School of Genius
  • Freud (1989) ISBN 978-0-192-82210-9
  • Art of Psychotherapy (1990) ISBN 0-415-90302-5
  • Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind (1990) ISBN 0-00-637566-9
  • Human Destructiveness: The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty (1991) ISBN 978-0-415-07170-3 – fully revised edition of Human Destructiveness
  • Music and the Mind (1992) ISBN 0-00-215398-X
  • Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1996) ISBN 0-684-82818-9
  • The Essential Jung: Selected Writings (1998) ISBN 0-00-653065-6 – another edition of The Essential Jung
  • Freud: A Very Short Introduction (2001) ISBN 0-19-285455-0 – another edition of Freud

See also

References
  1. Stevens, Anthony (20 March 2001). "Obituary: Anthony Storr". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  2. Stevens, Anthony (September 2001). "Obituary: Anthony Storr". BJPsych Bulletin. 25 (9): 365–366. doi:10.1192/pb.25.9.365. ISSN 2056-4694.
  3. Fordham, Michael (1998). Hobdell, Roger (ed.). Freud, Jung, Klein-- the Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415186155.
  4. "Obituary: Anthony Storr". The Telegraph. 21 March 2001. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  5. "Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus". Storytel. 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  6. Storr, Anthony (1997). Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus. New York: Free Press Paperbacks. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0-684-83495-2.

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