Harry Stack Sullivan & Interpersonal Theory Flashcards

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Sullivan was trained as a

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psychiatrist

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Sullivan’s definition of personality:

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“The relatively enduring pattern of recurrent interpersonal situation which characterize a human life”

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He believed personality only exist in the presence of…

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other people

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What is Sullivan’s most enduring concept?

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Significant others - the people we are emotionally closest to, not necessarily family

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Sullivan identified himself as a…

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psychoanalyst

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What is the Dyad?

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The basic interpersonal “unit”
A series of two person relationships

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What is the first dyad?

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The mothering one

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Each persons’ needs and developmental tasks are met through…

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the dyad

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Sullivan believed that we all live in a state of ______ and that all human motivation is geared toward eliminating that ______

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anxiety
anxiety

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What are Sullivan’s two basic needs?

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  1. Physical
  2. Interpersonal
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Sullivan is the one who most closely aligned himself with ______

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Freud

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What is the definition of interpersonal needs?

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a tension that is alleviated in relationships with others or in feelings of well-being

(finding an occupation which you love and are happy with it)

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What is the definition of the self-system?

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the part of the personality born entirely out of the influences of significant others upon one’s feeling of well-being

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What are the 2 parts of today’s conceptualization of self-esteem?

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Part 1: What do you think of yourself
Part 2: What others think of you

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The Dyad of “Mommy and Me”

What is the 1st interpersonal situation?

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Feeding

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16
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What are personifications?

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the investment of human attributes in persons who do not have the assigned traits, at least not to the degree they are assigned

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What are the 5 personal personifications?

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Me
Good me
Bad me
Not me
Maybe me (added later)

18
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What are 3 important features with the mothering one?

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Empathy
Anxiety
Interpersonal security

19
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What are Sullivan’s Modes of Experience (3)

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Protaxic
Parataxic
Syntaxic

20
Q

Which mode of experience is this?

o Sensations of infants
o Images, feelings, moods or impressions as adults
o Starts in infancy
o Bunch of chaotic sensations

21
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Which mode of experience is this?

o Private, personal events only experienced by an individual
o Does not involve any other human beings
o Starts later on in life

22
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Which mode of experience is this?

o Consensually validated events with others
o Does involve others
o Ex: you and friend go to football game, saw QB stumble as you went past the 25 yard line. You both saw it, and both agreed that it happened

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What are Sullivan’s stages of personality development? (6)

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Infancy
Childhood
Juvenile era
Preadolescence
Early adolescence
Late adolescence

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Preadolescence: Use of genitals during sex

O________: sex with “natural receptor organs”
P________: opposite sex contact that cannot lead to pregnancy
M________: masturbating or performing oral sex on another
A________: assuming a different role with one’s partner

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Orthogential
Paragenital
Metagenital
Amphigenital

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Preadolescence: choices of intimacy expressions A________ person = self-directed love I_________ person = orientated to one's own gender H________ person = interest in relationships with opposite sex
Autpphilic Isophilic Heterophilic
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How do children learn? (5)
o Trial and success o Rewards and punishments o Trial and error o Learn by anxiety o Anxiety gradient
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Use of Genital: Orthogenital = Paragenital = Metagenital = Amphigenital =
Orthogenital = tradition, missionary Paragenital = frottage (dry humping??) Metagenital = masturbation Amphigenital = mutual masturbation
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Who was the first one to come up with the structured interview?
Sullivan
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What are the Clinical Interview stages?
1. Inception 2. Reconnaissance stage 3. Detailed Inquiry 4. Interruption or termination
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Clinical interview - Inception
Presenting problem is established
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Clinical interview - Reconnaissance stage
Outline of the personal history of patient
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Clinical interview - detailed inquiry
In-depth exploration of presenting problem Mental Status Exam
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Clinical interview - Interruption or Termination
Interruption: end of this session Termination: therapy has ended
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What are the goals of interpersonal therapy?
o Discover what the interpersonal difficulty is o Allow patient to achieve non-threatening consensually validated experience with another human being – ingredient to success