Harry Stack Sullivan Flashcards
emphasized the importance of interpersonal relations. shaped almost entirely by the relationships we have with other people
Sullivan’s Interpersonal
Theory
conceptualized personality as an energy system, with energy existing either as potentiality for action or as energy transformations (the actions themselves).
Tensions
can relate either to the general well-being of a person or to specific zones, such as the mouth or genitals.
Needs
disjunctive and calls for no consistent actions for its relief
Anxiety
refer to a typical pattern of behavior.
Dynamism
disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred is called what?
Malevolence
The conjunctive dynamism marked by a close personal relationship between two people of equal status is called?
Intimacy
a self-centered need that can be satisfied in the absence of an intimate interpersonal relationship.
Lust
a conjunctive dynamism; pattern of behaviors that protects us against anxiety and maintains our interpersonal security
Self-System
grows out of infants’ experiences with a nipple that does not satisfy their hunger needs.
Bad Mother
allows a person to dissociate or selectively inattend the experiences related to anxiety.
the not-me
people often create imaginary traits that they project onto others; imaginary friends; imaginary playmates
Eidetic Personifications
three levels of cognition
prototaxic
parataxic
syntaxic
Experiences that are impossible to put into words or to communicate to others
Prototaxic
Experiences that are prelogical and nearly impossible to accurately communicate to others
Parataxic
Experiences that can be accurately communicated to others
Syntaxic
The period from birth until the emergence of syntaxic language ; a time when the child receives tenderness from the mothering one while also learning anxiety through an empathic linkage with the mother
Infancy
The stage that lasts from the beginning of syntaxic language until the need for playmates of equal status
Childhood
begins with the need for peers of equal status and continues until the child develops a need for an intimate relationship with a chum
Juvenile Era
the most crucial stage; because mistakes made earlier can be corrected this stage, but errors made during this stage are nearly impossible to overcome in later life
Preadolescence
a time when a person establishes a stable relationship with a significant other person and develops a consistent pattern of viewing the world.
Adulthood
marked by a coexistence of intimacy with a single friend of the same gender and sexual interest in many persons of the opposite gender
Early Adolescence
begins when a person is able to feel both intimacy and lust toward the same person; characterized by a stable pattern of sexual activity and the growth of the syntaxic mode
Late adolescence
