The Creativity, Introspection, and Pacifism of Andrew Brink

Andrew Whitelaw Brink is a literary scholar who has researched and published extensively in artistic creativity, psychobiography, Colonial America, and pacifism. Professor Brink was born January 1, 1932, in Madison, Wisconsin. He received all three of his degrees in English literature—BA (1955) and MA (1958) from the University of Toronto, and PhD (1963) from the University of London, United Kingdom. Prior to devoting himself totally to research, writing, and publishing, he taught literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, from 1961 to 1988, and then headed the Humanities and Psychoanalytic Thought Program at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 1993. Brink has an abiding interest in the British “object relations” theorists and the durability of their ideas about personality formation and psychopathology. Brink’s well received series of three review articles of books on John Bowlby, Ronald Fairbairn, Harry Guntrip, and Donald Winnicott appeared in Clio’s Psyche Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4, September and December, l998, and March, 1999. He serves as a trustee of the Holland Society of New York and of the Psychohistory Forum.