Lesson 8. HARRY STACK SULLIVAN’S(1892-1949) INTERPERSONAL THEORY

Question 1

Sullivan birthdate

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February 21, 1892

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Question 2

Sullivan died of cerebral hemorrhage in a Paris hotel room on

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January 14, 1949

Question 3

viewed man’s personality as a self-system or an energy transformation
system that could dissipate the anxiety with which the main functions is the
employment of acivities that would reduce tension.

Answer 3

HARRY STACK SULLIVAN

Question 4

defined as the relatively enduring pattern of energy transformation,
which recurrently characterize the organism in its duration as a living organism

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Dynamism

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a disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred, characterized by the feeling of living among one’s enemies.

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Malevolence

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an integrating experience maked by a close personal relationship
with another person who is more or less of equal status

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Intimacy

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an isolating dynamism characterized by an impersonal sexual interest in another person

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Lust

Question 8

conjunctive dynamism that includes a consistent pattern of

behavior that maintains people’s interpersonal security in protecting them from anxiety.

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Self-system

Question 9

defined as an image that an individual has of himself or of another person.

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Personification

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ways of perceiving, imagining, and conceiving

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Cognitive levels

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undifferentiated experiences that are completely personal

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Prototaxic

Question 12

prelogical experiences that are communicated to others only in a
distorted fashion.

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Parataxic

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highest mode of thinking consensually communicated to others

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Syntaxic

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potential for action that may or may not experience in awareness

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Tension

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2 types of tension:

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Needs and Anxiety

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energy is transformed into actions by either overt or

covert.

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Energy transformations

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Development of personality (Sullivan)

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Infancy(0-2)
Childhood(2-6)
Juvenile(6-8 ½)
Preadolescence(8 ½)
Early adolescence(13-15)
Late adolescence(15-up)