When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

" Despite his best efforts others included homosexuality as a disqualification for military service. He believed writes one historian "that sexuality played a minimal role in causing mental disorders and that adult homosexuals should be accepted and left alone. He attended the Smyrna Union School then spent two years at Cornell University from 1909 receiving his medical degree in Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1917.

psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation (versus the more abstract conceptions of the unconscious mind favored by Sigmund Freud and his disciples). Harry Stack Sullivan (February 21 1892 Norwich New York – January 14 1949 Paris France) was a U.