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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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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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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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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.
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.
Willian Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation
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conjunctive; they help integrate personality
NEEDS
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facilitate the overall well-being or a person
General Needs
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tenderness, intimacy and love
Interpersonal
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food, oxygen, water and so forth
Physiological
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may also satisfy general needs
Zonal Needs
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Zonal Needs
1. Oral 2. Genital 3. Manual
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disjunctive; it interferes with the satisfaction of needs
Anxiety
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potential for action
Tension
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overt or covert actions designed to satisfy needs or to reduce anxiety.
Energy Transformations
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Some energy transformations become relatively consistent patterns of behavior called _______
dynamisms
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traits or behavioral patterns
Dynamisms
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a feeling of living in enemy country
MALEVOLENCE
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an integrating experience marked by a close personal relationships with another person who is more or less of equal status
INTIMACY
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an isolating dynamism characterized by an impersonal sexual interest in another person
LUST
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SULLIVAN'S THEORY OF PERSONALITY
1. Tension 2. Energy Transformations 3. Dynamisms 4. Levels of Cognitions 5. Personifications
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2 factors under Tension
1. NEEDS 2. ANXIETY
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3 factors under Dynamisms
1. MALEVOLENCE 2. INTIMACY 3. LUST
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3 factors under Levels of Cognitions
1. PROTOTAXIC 2. PARATAXIC 3. SYNTAXIC
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3 factors under Personifications
1. Bad-Mother, Good Mother 2. Me Personifications 3. Eidetic Personification
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ways of perceiving, imagining and conceiving
Levels of Cognitions
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undifferentiated experiences that are completely personal
PROTOTAXIC
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prelogical experiences that are communicated to others only in a distorted fashion
PARATAXIC
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consensually validated experiences that can be accurately communicated to others
SYNTAXIC
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similar to Klien's bad breast and good breast
Bad-Mother, Good Mother
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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.
Bad mother
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It is formed based on the tender and cooperative behaviors of the mothering one.
Good mother
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During mid-infancy the child acquires _______.
bad-me, good-me and not-me
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A personification that are the building blocks of the self
Me Personifications
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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.
Bad me
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experience with reward and approval. Infants feel good about themselves when they perceive their mother expressions of tenderness. Diminishes anxiety.
Good me
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forms when sudden severe anxiety either dissociate or selectively in attended experiences related to that anxiety.
Not me
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unrealistic traits or imaginary friends that many children invent in order to protect their self-esteem.
Eidetic Personification
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Not limited to children, adults may project imaginary traits that are remnants from previous relationships.
Eidetic Personification
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______ friends maybe a significant to a child's development as real playmates.
Imaginary
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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
TRUE
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Dissociated reactions that often precede schizophrenia are characterized by _____, ______, ______, ______, and _______.
1. loneliness 2. low self-esteem 3. the uncanny emotion 4. unsatisfactory relations with others 5. ever increasing anxiety
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People begin to operate in their own private worlds, with increasing _________ and decreasing _________.
parataxic distortions ; consensually validated experiences
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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
TRUE
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The therapist provides the patient an opportunity to establish ______ communication with another human being
syntaxic
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That time, most schizophrenic and other psychotic patients were regarded as ________.
subhuman
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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
face-to-face
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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.
Friendship
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TRUE or FALSE Sullivan's experiment worked. A high rate of his patients got better.
TRUE
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Beginning around the age of 6 and 9, children's relationships with peers their own age is important. Importance of ______
same-sex friends
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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.
RUMINATION
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When rumination occurs in the context of friendship, it is called ________
CORUMINATION
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excessively discussing personal problems within a relationship.
CORUMINATION
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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.
same-sex
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Corumination for _____ was associated with better friendships but was not related to increased depression or anxiety.
boys
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Children who have _________ are more creative, intelligent, friendly and sociable.
imaginary friends
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It is not a sign of pathology, feelings of loneliness and alienation but a source of enjoyment.
imaginary friends
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Critique of Sullivan
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
1. UNIQUENESS and INDIVIDUALITY are of little concern for Sullivan. 2. Neither OPTIMISTIC or PESSIMISTIC 3. SOCIAL INFLUENCE very high
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant? MOTHER
INFANCY
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant? PARENTS
CHILDHOOD
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant? PLAYMATES
JUVENILE ERA
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant? SINGLE CHUM
PREADOLESCENCE
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant? SEVERAL CHUMS
EARLY ADOLESCENCE
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What stages of development for Sullivan does the following significant others most relevant? LOVER
LATE ADOLESCENCE
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The psychosocial crisis, ego strength and core pathology of the psychosocial stages of development
1. Trust VS Mistrust >>> Hope, Withdrawal 2. Autonomy VS Shame & Doubt >>> Will, Compulsion 3. Initiative VS Guilt >>> Purpose, Inhibition 4. Industry VS Inferiority >>> Competence, Inertia 5. Identity VS Identity Confusion >>> Fidelity, Repudiation 6. Incarnation VS Impudence >>> Interdependence & Self-sufficience, Dependence & Helplessness 7. Intimacy VS Isolation >>> Love, Exclusivity 8. Generativity VS Stagnation >>> Care, Rejectivity 9. Integrity VS Despair >>> Wisdom, Disdain

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