Chapter 7: Interpersonal Theory (Harry Stack Sullivan) Flashcards
(45 cards)
The first American to construct a comprehensive personality theory, believed that people develop their personality within a social context. Without other people, Sullivan contended, humans would have no personality.
Harry Stack Sullivan
Emphasizes the importance of various developmental stages—infancy, childhood, the juvenile era, preadolescence, early adolescence, late adolescence, and adulthood.
Interpersonal Theory
This chum was _____.
Clarence Bellinger
As an adult, he brought into his home a 15-year-old boy who was probably a former patient. This young man—_____—remained with Sullivan for 22 years, looking after his financial affairs, typing manuscripts, and generally running the household.
James Inscoe
Needs
Anxiety
Tensions
Like Freud and Jung, Sullivan saw personality as an _____ system. Energy can exist either as tension (potentiality for action) or as actions themselves (energy transformations).
energy
Tensions that are transformed into actions, either overt or covert, are called _____.
energy transformations
Energy transformations become organized as typical behavior patterns that characterize a person throughout a lifetime. Sullivan called these behavior patterns _____, a term that means about the same as traits or habit patterns.
Kapag naging organized an young Energy Transformations it will form.
dynamisms
Malevolence
Intimacy
Lust
Self-System
Dynamisms
2 Major Classes of Dynamism:
- Related to mouth, anus, and genitals
2. Related to tensions. (3)
3 Categories of Tension Class of Dynamisms:
- Disjunctive = Malevolence; destructive
- Isolating = Lust; unrelated to interpersonal
- Conjunctive = beneficial behavior pattern; intimacy and self-system
- Disjunctive = Malevolence; destructive
- Isolating = Lust; unrelated to interpersonal
- Conjunctive = beneficial behavior pattern; intimacy and self-system
3 Categories of Tension Class of Dynamisms:
include those destructive patterns of behavior that are related to the concept of malevolence;
Disjunctive dynamisms
include those behavior patterns (such as lust) that are unrelated to interpersonal relations;
Isolating dynamisms
include beneficial behavior patterns, such as intimacy and the self-system.
Conjunctive dynamisms
_____ actions often take the form of timidity, mischievousness, cruelty, or other kinds of asocial or antisocial behavior.
When parents attempt to control their children’s behavior by physical pain or reproving remarks, some children will learn to withhold any expression of the need for tenderness and to protect themselves by adopting the _____ attitude.
Malevolence
Because _____ is a dynamism that requires an equal partnership, it does not usually exist in parent-child relationships unless both are adults and see one another as equals.
Intimacy
Intimacy is an _____ dynamism.
integrating
Lust is an _____ tendency, requiring no other person for its satisfaction.
isolating
The most complex and inclusive of all the dynamisms is the _____, a consistent pattern of behaviors that maintains people’s interpersonal security by protecting them from anxiety.
self-system
As children develop intelligence and foresight, they become able to learn which behaviors are related to an increase or decrease in anxiety. This ability to detect slight increases or decreases in anxiety provides the self-system with a _____.
built-in warning device.
Dissociation and Selective Inattention.
Two important Security Operations
Bad-Mother, Good-Mother
Me Personifications
Eidetic Personifications
Personifications
Beginning in infancy and continuing throughout the various developmental stages, people acquire certain images of themselves and others.
Personifications
