Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory PDF

Sullivan: Interpersonal Theory Syntaxic Level – This is the most mature level of cognition Harry Stack Sullivan American Psychiatrist who developed the 7 Stages of development interpersonal theory....

Sullivan: Interpersonal Theory Syntaxic Level – This is the most mature level of cognition Harry Stack Sullivan American Psychiatrist who developed the 7 Stages of development interpersonal theory. Infancy - Begins at birth and continues until Tension a child develops potentiality for action that may or may not Childhood - advent of syntaxic language be experienced in awareness. Juvenile era - appearance of the need for peers or playmates Two types Tensions Preadolescence - Begins at age 8 1/2 and Needs biological imbalance between a person ends with adolescence and the physiochemical environment Early adolescence - Begins with puberty and Tenderness ends with the need for sexual love General Needs Late adolescence - Begins when young people Zonal Needs are able to feel both lust and intimacy Adulthood - establish a love relationship Anxiety disjunctive, is more diffuse and with at least one significant another person. vaguer Psychological Disorders - Sullivan believed Anxiety produces behaviors that that all psychological disorders have an (1) prevent people from learning from their interpersonal origin and can be understood mistakes, only with reference to the patient’s social (2) keep people pursuing a childish wish for environment. security, and Psychotherapy - participant observer and (3) generally, ensure that people will not attempts to improve patients’ interpersonal learn from their experiences. relations. Energy Transformation Tensions that are Related Research transformed into actions, either overt or Sullivan’s interpersonal theory of personality covert rests on the assumption that unhealthy Dynamism (traits or behavioral patterns) - personality development results from refers to relatively stable patterns of energy interpersonal conflicts and difficulties. transformations Malevolence is the disjunctive dynamism of The Pros and Cons of “Chums” for Girls and evil and hatred Boy - Harry Stack Sullivan, considered Intimacy involves a close interpersonal friends during childhood and adolescence to relationship between two people who are be crucial to developing into a healthy adult. more or less of equal status Lust is an isolating tendency, requiring no Ruminating is the act of dwelling on a other person for its satisfaction. negative event Self-System This is the most complex and Co-rumination - excessively discussing important dynamism in Sullivan’s theory. personal problems within a relationship. Imaginary Friend- Sullivan recognized the Personifications Beginning in infancy and importance of having an imaginary friend, continuing throughout the various especially during the childhood stage developmental stages Concept of humanity Three basic personifications Sullivan’s basic conception of humanity is Bad mother - anxious, malevolent mother. summed up in his one-genus hypothesis, Good mother - calm, tender mother. which states that “everyone is much more Me Personifications- During mid infancy a simply human than otherwise”. This child acquires three me personifications hypothesis was his way of saying that (bad-me, good-me, and not-me) that form the similarities among people are much more building blocks of the self-personification. important than differences. Eidetic personifications unrealistic traits or imaginary friends Levels of Cognition Prototaxic Level most primitive level of cognition, experienced primarily in infancy. Parataxic level - make erroneous assumptions about cause and effect