Storr, Anthony

Storr, Anthony
▪ 2002

      British psychiatrist (b. May 18, 1920, London, Eng.—d. March 17, 2001, Oxford, Eng.), made psychiatric concepts accessible to the public in a dozen lucid, jargon-free books and as a prominent figure on radio and television. Storr trained in the tradition of Carl Jung at Christ's College, Cambridge, but he maintained a liberal, open-minded approach, both as a clinician and as a University of Oxford lecturer (from 1974). Storr explored such wide-ranging topics as sexual deviation, human aggression, violence in sports, the dynamics of creativity, emotional responses to music, and the appeal of religious cults. His best-known book, Churchill's Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind (1980; U.S. title, Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind, 1988), examined the relationship between creativity and mental illness (notably severe depression).

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