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HARRY SULLIVAN: INTERPERSONAL THEORY Flashcards

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the first American to construct a comprehensive personality theory

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Harry Stack Sullivan

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without other people, humans would have no personality

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Interpersonal Theory

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most crucial stage of development is

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Preadolescence

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children first possess the capacity for intimacy but have not yet reached an age at which their intimate relationships are complicated by lustful interests

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Preadolescence

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Structure of Personality

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Tensions

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potentiality for actions

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Tension

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Actions

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Energy Transformations

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________ transform tensions into either covert or overt behaviors.

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Energy Transformations

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two types of tensions

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Needs and Anxiety

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brought on by biological imbalance between a person and the physiochemical environment

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Needs

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are episodic

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Needs

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they are likely to recur

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Needs

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most basic interpersonal need

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Tenderness

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primary caretaker

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“The Mothering One”

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15
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tenderness requires actions from at least ______

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two people

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concerned with the overall wellbeing of a person

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General Need

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tenderness is a _______

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General Need

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arise from a particular area of the body

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Zonal Needs

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vague and disjunctive and calls forth no consistent actions for its relief

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Anxiety

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20
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chief disruptive force blocking the development of healthy interpersonal relations

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Anxiety

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complete lack of tension

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Euphoria

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Energy Transformations become organized as typical behavior patterns that characterize a person throughout a lifetime

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Dynamisms

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same as traits or habit patterns

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Dynamisms

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two major classes of Dynamisms

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those related to specific zones of the body

those related to tensions

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the second class is composed of three categories

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disjunctive
isolating
conjunctive

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destructive patterns of behavior that are related to the concept of malevolence

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Disjunctive Dynamisms

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behavior pattern that are unrelated to interpersonal relations

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Isolating Dynamisms

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beneficial behavior patterns (intimacy and self-system)

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Conjunctive Dynamisms

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evil and hatred

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Malevolence

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malevolent actions often take the form of

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Timidity, Mischievousness, Cruelty, or other kinds of Asocial or Antisocial Behavior

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more specific and involves a close interpersonal relationship between two people who are more or less of equal status

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Intimacy

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intimacy is not similar with _______

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Sexual Interest

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isolating tendency

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Lust

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powerful dynamism during adolescence which often leads to a reduction of self-esteem

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Lust

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most complex and inclusive of all the dynamisms

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Self-System

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a consistent pattern of behaviors that maintains people’s interpersonal security by protecting them from anxiety

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Self-System

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it is the principal stumbling block to favorable changes in personality

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Self-System

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used to reduce feelings of insecurity or anxiety that result from endangered self-esteem

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Security Operations

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a powerful brake on personal and human progress

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Security operations

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two important security operations

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Dissociation

Selective Inattention

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impulses, desires, and needs that a person refuses to allow into awareness

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Dissociation

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refusal to see things that we not wish to see

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Selective Inattention

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people acquire certain images of themselves and others

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Personifications

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three basic personifications that develop during infancy

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bad mother
good mother
me (good, bad, not me)

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imaginary playmates

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Eldetic Personification

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ways of perceiving, imagining, and conceiving

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Levels of Cognition

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three levels or modes of experience

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prototaxic
parataxic
syntaxic

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experiences that are impossible to communicate

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Prototaxic Level

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experiences that are personal, prelogical, and communicated only in distorted form

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Parataxic Experiences

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experiences are meaningful interpersonal communication

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Syntaxic Cognition

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neonates - needs that can’t be communicated

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Prototaxic Level

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a person assumes a cause-and-effect relationship between two events that occur concidentally.

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Parataxic Level

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consensually validated and that can be symbolically communicate can take place

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Syntaxic Level

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stages of development

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Infancy
Childhood
Juvenile Era
Preadolescence 
Early Adolescence 
Late Adolescence 
Adulthood
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infants become humans through tenderness received from the mothering one

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Infancy

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continues until the appearance of the need for playmates of an equal status. the mother remains the the most significant other person. eldetic playmates

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Childhood

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period of rapid acculturation

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Childhood

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children learn cultural patterns of cleanliness, toilet training, eating habits, and sex-role expectations

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Period of Rapid Acculturation

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ends when one finds a single chum to satisfy the need for intimacy

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Juvenile Era

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child should learn to compete, compromise, and cooperate

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Juvenile Era

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intimacy with same gender

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Preadolescence

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is the genesis of the capacity to love

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Preadolescence

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significant relationships of this age are typically

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boy-to-boy or girl-to-girl chums

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carefree time of life

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Preadolescence

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need for sexual love, advent of lustful relationships

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Early Adolescence

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both lust and love toward the same person

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Late Adolescence

67
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people can establish love relationship with at least one significant other person

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Adulthood

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all _____ have an interpersonal origin and can be understood only with reference to the patient’s social environment

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Psychological Disorders

69
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they are derived from the same kind of interpersonal troubles faced by all people

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Psychological Disorders

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Psychotherapy aims to improve a patient’s __________

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relationship with others

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the therapist serves as _______ becoming part of an interpersonal face-to-face relationships with the patient and providing the patient an opportunity to establish syntaxic communication with another human being

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participant observer

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