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M2 Week 8: Sullivan Flashcards

1
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________ was born in Norwich, New York on February 21, 1892.

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Harry Stack Sullivan

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Mother of Harry Stack Sullivan

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Ella Stack Sullivan

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Father of Harry Stack Sullivan

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Timothy Sullivan

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Sole surviving child of poor Irish Catholic parents.

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Harry Stack Sullivan

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At 8 1/2 years, Sullivan experienced an intimate relationship with a 13 year old boy named _____

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Clarence Bellinger

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Sullivan mysteriously disappeared as he may have suffered a ______ and was confined to a mental hospital

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schizophrenic breakdown

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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan served as medical military officer in WW1 and continue to serve after the war.

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TRUE

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In 1921, he went to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington DC where he became closely acquainted with _________, one of America’s best known neuropsychiatrists.

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William Alanson White

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In 1911, Sullivan enrolled in the _______ where his grades improved.

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Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery

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Sullivan served as _______ in WW1 and continue to serve after the war.

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medical military officer

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In 1921, he went to ______ in Washington DC

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St. Elizabeth Hospital

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one of America’s best known neuropsychiatrists.

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William Alanson White

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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan concluded that schizophrenia was a means of coping with the anxiety generated for social and interpersonal environments.

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TRUE

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Sullivan developed a system in which non-professional but sympathetic male attendants treated schizophrenic patients with human respect and care. This gained him a reputation as a _________

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clinical wizard

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Sullivan opened a private practice in _________

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New York City

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_______, encouraged Sullivan to travel to Europe and train under ________, a disciple of Freud.

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Thompson ; Sandor Ferenczi

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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan’s theory of interpersonal psychiatry is neither psychoanalytic nor neo-Freudian

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TRUE

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18
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an informal organization that met regularly over drinks to discuss old and new ideas in psychiatry and the related social sciences

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Zodiac group

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He had contact with several psychiatrists and social scientist with a European background:

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  1. Karen Horney
  2. Erich Fromm
  3. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
  4. Clara Thompson
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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan gave up private practice and moved to Washington DC.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan’s sexual orientation may have prevented him from gaining the acceptance and recognition he might have had if others had not suspected that he was homosexual.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan was not comfortable with his sexuality and had ambivalent feelings toward marriage.

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TRUE

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As an adult, he brought into his home a 15 year old boy who was probably a former patient, _______.

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James Inscoe

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24
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Sullivan never officially adopted James whom he regarded as a son and even had his name changed to ________.

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James I. Sullivan

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25
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In January 1949, Sullivan attended a meeting of the World Federation for Mental Health in Amsterdam and on his way home, he died of ______ in a Paris hotel. He was 56.

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cerebral hemorrhage

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Sullivan served as the first president of the _______ in Washington, DC and also as editor of the foundation’s journal, Psychiatry.

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Willian Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation

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conjunctive; they help integrate personality

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NEEDS

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facilitate the overall well-being or a person

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General Needs

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tenderness, intimacy and love

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Interpersonal

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food, oxygen, water and so forth

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Physiological

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may also satisfy general needs

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Zonal Needs

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Zonal Needs

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  1. Oral
  2. Genital
  3. Manual
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disjunctive; it interferes with the satisfaction of needs

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Anxiety

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potential for action

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Tension

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overt or covert actions designed to satisfy needs or to reduce anxiety.

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Energy Transformations

36
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Some energy transformations become relatively consistent patterns of behavior called _______

37
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traits or behavioral patterns

38
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a feeling of living in enemy country

A

MALEVOLENCE

39
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an integrating experience marked by a close personal relationships with another person who is more or less of equal status

40
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an isolating dynamism characterized by an impersonal sexual interest in another person

41
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SULLIVAN’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY

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  1. Tension
  2. Energy Transformations
  3. Dynamisms
  4. Levels of Cognitions
  5. Personifications
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2 factors under Tension

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  1. NEEDS
  2. ANXIETY
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3 factors under Dynamisms

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  1. MALEVOLENCE
  2. INTIMACY
  3. LUST
44
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3 factors under Levels of Cognitions

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  1. PROTOTAXIC
  2. PARATAXIC
  3. SYNTAXIC
45
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3 factors under Personifications

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  1. Bad-Mother, Good Mother
  2. Me Personifications
  3. Eidetic Personification
46
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ways of perceiving, imagining and conceiving

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Levels of Cognitions

47
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undifferentiated experiences that are completely personal

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PROTOTAXIC

48
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prelogical experiences that are communicated to others only in a distorted fashion

49
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consensually validated experiences that can be accurately communicated to others

50
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similar to Klien’s bad breast and good breast

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Bad-Mother, Good Mother

51
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This personification grows out of the infant’s experiences with the bad nipple that does not satisfy hunger. It includes everyone that is nursing the infant not just the mother.

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Bad mother

52
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It is formed based on the tender and cooperative behaviors of the mothering one.

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Good mother

53
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During mid-infancy the child acquires _______.

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bad-me, good-me and not-me

54
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A personification that are the building blocks of the self

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Me Personifications

55
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fashioned from experiences of punishment and disapproval that infants receive from their mothering one. The anxiety teach infants that they are bad.

56
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experience with reward and approval. Infants feel good about themselves when they perceive their mother expressions of tenderness. Diminishes anxiety.

57
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forms when sudden severe anxiety either dissociate or selectively in attended experiences related to that anxiety.

58
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unrealistic traits or imaginary friends that many children invent in order to protect their self-esteem.

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Eidetic Personification

59
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Not limited to children, adults may project imaginary traits that are remnants from previous relationships.

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Eidetic Personification

60
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______ friends maybe a significant to a child’s development as real playmates.

61
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TRUE or FALSE
All psychological disorders have an interpersonal origin and can be understood only with reference to the patient’s social environment

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Dissociated reactions that often precede schizophrenia are characterized by _____, ______, ______, ______, and _______.

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  1. loneliness
  2. low self-esteem
  3. the uncanny emotion
  4. unsatisfactory relations with others
  5. ever increasing anxiety
63
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People begin to operate in their own private worlds, with increasing _________ and decreasing _________.

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parataxic distortions ; consensually validated experiences

64
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TRUE or FALSE
The therapist serves as a participant observer, becoming part of an interpersonal, face to face relationship with the patient

65
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The therapist provides the patient an opportunity to establish ______ communication with another human being

66
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That time, most schizophrenic and other psychotic patients were regarded as ________.

67
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the therapeutic ingredient in this process is the _______relationship between therapist and patients that makes patients reduce anxiety and to communicate with others

A

face-to-face

68
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________ is not a condition of psychotherapy, therapist must be trained as experts in the difficult business of making discerning observations of the patient’s interpersonal relations.

A

Friendship

69
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TRUE or FALSE
Sullivan’s experiment worked. A high rate of his patients got better.

70
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Beginning around the age of 6 and 9, children’s relationships with peers their own age is important. Importance of ______

A

same-sex friends

71
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the act of dwelling on a negative event or negative aspects of an otherwise neutral or even positive event and is generally considered to be harmful as it is associated with an increase in depression.

A

RUMINATION

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When rumination occurs in the context of friendship, it is called ________

A

CORUMINATION

73
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excessively discussing personal problems within a relationship.

A

CORUMINATION

74
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CoRumination in the _______ was related to increased feelings of depression and anxiety but was also related to greater friendship quality for girls.

75
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Corumination for _____ was associated with better friendships but was not related to increased depression or anxiety.

76
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Children who have _________ are more creative, intelligent, friendly and sociable.

A

imaginary friends

77
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It is not a sign of pathology, feelings of loneliness and alienation but a source of enjoyment.

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imaginary friends

78
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Critique of Sullivan

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  1. GENERATE RESEARCH - low. lack of popularity, organization in his writings and speeches.
  2. FALSIFIABLE - low. Alternative explanations are possible for most of his findings.
  3. ORGANIZE KNOWLEDGE - moderate. Extreme emphasis on interpersonal relationships
  4. PRACTICAL GUIDE - moderate. lack of testing
  5. INTERNAL CONSISTENCY - high. logically conceptualized and unified.
  6. PARSIMONIOUS - low. creating own terms
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CONCEPTS OF HUMANITY

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  1. UNIQUENESS and INDIVIDUALITY are of little concern for Sullivan.
  2. Neither OPTIMISTIC or PESSIMISTIC
  3. SOCIAL INFLUENCE very high
80
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant?

MOTHER

81
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant?

PARENTS

82
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant?

PLAYMATES

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JUVENILE ERA

83
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant?

SINGLE CHUM

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PREADOLESCENCE

84
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant?

SEVERAL CHUMS

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EARLY ADOLESCENCE

85
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant?

LOVER

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LATE ADOLESCENCE

86
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The psychosocial crisis, ego strength and core pathology of the psychosocial stages of development

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  1. Trust VS Mistrust&raquo_space;> Hope, Withdrawal
  2. Autonomy VS Shame & Doubt&raquo_space;> Will, Compulsion
  3. Initiative VS Guilt&raquo_space;> Purpose, Inhibition
  4. Industry VS Inferiority&raquo_space;> Competence, Inertia
  5. Identity VS Identity Confusion&raquo_space;> Fidelity, Repudiation
  6. Incarnation VS Impudence&raquo_space;> Interdependence & Self-sufficience, Dependence & Helplessness
  7. Intimacy VS Isolation&raquo_space;> Love, Exclusivity
  8. Generativity VS Stagnation&raquo_space;> Care, Rejectivity
  9. Integrity VS Despair&raquo_space;> Wisdom, Disdain

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