Critical Figures in Development

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Critical Figures in Development of the
Interpersonal Circumplex Harry Stack Sullivan
personality is nothing more (or less) than the
patterned regularities that may be observed in an
individuals relations with other persons, who
may be real in the sense of actually being
present, real but absent and hence personified,
or even illusory (Carson, 1969) Kaiser
Foundation Group (1950s) University of
California faculty member Coffey and his graduate
students, Freedman, Leary, and Ossorio,
classifying behavior of group psychotherapy
participants and later psychiatric patients
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• Principles of Interpersonal Theory
• Complementarity. Within the circumplex,
  interpersonal interactions fit when there is
  reciprocity (vertical) and correspondence
  (horizontal). Complementary interactions are not
  necessarily healthy, but they satisfy peoples
  needs for interactions that fit their
  self-definitions and interpersonal habits.
• Extremity. Abnormal or disordered behavior is an
  exaggeration of normal, adaptive behavior.
• Interpersonal habits are thought to come from
  IPIR (Important People or their Internal
  Representations) through copy processes
• identification do unto others as has been done
  unto you
• recapitulation continue in a complementary way
  to the IPIR
• introjection do unto others as you would have
  done unto you

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Equivalent trait and resource terms
Dominance/power Agency Status Extraversion
Affiliation Communion Love Agreeableness
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Resource exchange theory
S Status and Love O Love
S Status and Love O Neither
S Status and Love O Status and Love
S Status O Neither
S Love O Status and Love
S Neither O Neither
S Neither O Status and Love
S Neither O Status