Sullivan Flashcards
the chief disruptive force in interpersonal relationships.
Anxiety
complete lack of tension.
Euphoria
a refusal to see those things that we do not wish to see
Selective Inattention
evil and hatred or feeling of living among one’s enemies.
Malevolence (Disjunctive)
pattern of behaviors that protects us against anxiety and maintains our interpersonal security.
Self System (Conjunctive)
experiences cannot be communicated to others, they are difficult to describe or define.
Prototaxic
people acquire certain images of self and others through the developmental stage.
Personifications
own sexual gratification. Self-centered need that can be satisfied in the absence of an intimate personal relationship.
Lust (Isolating)
all human beings are an energy system where there are tensions.
Tensions
to reduce feelings of insecurity or anxiety that result from endangered self-esteem.
Security Operations
relate either to the general well being of a person or to a specific zone. It can be physiological or interpersonal.
Needs
includes those impulses, desires, and needs that a person refuses to allow into awareness.
Dissociation
experiences that can be accurately communicated to others.
Syntaxic
prelogical and usually result when a person assumes a cause-and-effect relationship between two events that occur coincidentally. Nearly impossible to accurately communicate to others.
Parataxic
typical pattern of behavior. It may relate either to specific zones of the body or to tensions.
Dynamism
