Lecture 9. Sullivan Flashcards
Interpersonal Theory is aka
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis or Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Harry Sullivan is father of?
Father of Interpersonal Psychiatry
Interpersonal Theory stressed the importance
stressed the importance of formative periods from infancy to later life which affected the adjustment of an individual
Sullivan believes that all human beings are
a product of interpersonal contacts that he makes through life
Tension
a part of life that has good and bad effects
Tension from early stage
From an early stage, one lives with tension, and as he matures, he learns to adapt to the condition of the state of experience through the use of self-system, personification and cognitive experience.
Nationality of Sullivan
American Psychiatrist
Two older brothers
Each of his two older brothers who were both born in February died of terrible convulsions before turning one year old, and thus his mother was terrified that Harry will eventually die himselg
Effect of deaths of previous children and fearing Harry’s death
rumored to be the reasons of alleged nervous breakdown of his mother, and Harry was sent to live with his maternal grandmother
Family Status of Sullivan
quite poor and live in a rural farm, on a poor part of the town
Father of Sullivan
was recluse, worked hard and described as poor Irish Catholic farmer
Harry Sullivan in Schooo
Harry did well in school but had few friends due to poor family background
Older Childhood Friend of Sullivan
Clarence Bellinger who was a psychiatrist but had falling out with harry and spoke poorly of him as an adult
In his career as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he met
Clara Thompson who shared his disagreement with Freud’s theory, had been engaged with her for a day and broke off the next morning
Other psychologicists Harry worked with
Horney, Fromm and his first wife Frieda and formed the Zodiac Group
Harry is known for
his works of schizophrenia and his treatment are innovative and experimental but a great success
Harry’s works focused on
interpersonal relationships and effects of loneliness on mental health
Harry’s work centered on
understanding interpersonal relationships and his research become the basis for a field of psychology known as interpersonal psychoanalysis
Sullivan wrote repeatedly that personality is?
pure entity, an “illusion” which cannot be observed or studied apart from interpersonal relationships or is not the person
The organization of personality consists of?
interpersonal events rather than intrapsychic ones
Personality manifests itself with the?
behavior a person shows in relation to one or more other individuals
People’s presence
People do not need to be present, they may be illusionary or nonexistent figures
What process are interpersonal in nature?
Perceiving, thinking, recalling, imagining and all other psychological processes
Anxiety in Interpersonal Theory
Anxiety is the product of interpersonal relations being transmitted from the mother to the infant, and in later life, by threats to one’s security
Basic Anxiety
fear of rejection from significant persons
Sullivan believes that a young child
was made to feel anxious for reasons that would not exist in a more rational society, thus the young child is forced to adopt unnatural and unrealistic ways of dealing with anxiety
Three Types of Self
Good-me, Bad-me, Not-me
Good-me
results to conformity to the society’s norms to avoid punishment and rejection from interpersonal relationships
Good-me represents
what people like about themselves and willing to share with others