The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry

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Table of Contents:
Part I Introductory Concepts; Chapter 1 The Meaning of the Developmental Approach; Chapter 2 Definitions; Chapter 3 Postulates; Part II The Developmental Epochs; Chapter 4 Infancy: Beginnings; Chapter 5 Infancy: The Concept of Dynamism—Part 1; Chapter 6 Infancy: The Concept of Dynamism—Part 2; Chapter 7 Infancy: Interpersonal Situations; Chapter 8 The Infant as a Person; Chapter 9 Learning: The Organization of Experience; Chapter 10 Beginnings of the Self-System; Chapter 11 The Transition from Infancy to Childhood: The Acquisition of Speech as Learning; Chapter 12 Childhood; Chapter 13 Malevolence, Hatred, and Isolating Techniques; Chapter 14 From Childhood into the Juvenile Era; Chapter 15 The Juvenile Era; Chapter 16 Preadolescence; Chapter 17 Early Adolescence; Chapter 18 Late Adolescence; Part III Patterns of Inadequate or Inappropriate Interpersonal Relations; Chapter 19 The Earlier Manifestations of Mental Disorder: Matters Schizoid and Schizophrenic; Chapter 20 Sleep, Dreams, and Myths*, Editors’ note: The illustrative material from myths that Sullivan has used in this lecture has not been changed, although the stories are not in precise agreement with the legends and stories that we know: for instance, the published version of Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger has a different setting, characters, and events.; Chapter 21 The Later Manifestations of Mental Disorder: Matters Paranoid and Paranoiac*, Editors’ note: Through p. 348 of this chapter, we have had to rely largely on the Notebook, since no recording of the lecture itself was made. In order to provide the continuity of Sullivan’s thinking, we have put into sentence form the topical outline given in his Notebook and expanded this on the basis of related material given elsewhere in this book. Beginning with the section on the Wish-Fulfilling Fantasy, the chapter is from a recorded lecture.; Part IV Towards a Psychiatry of Peoples; Chapter 22 CHAPTER 22*, Editors’ note: This chapter is mainly taken from “Towards a Psychiatry of Peoples” (Psychiatry 11:105–116). Beginning with the section headed “Whence the Urgency,” there appears an excerpt from “Remobilization for Enduring Peace and Social Progress” (Psychiatry 10:239–252; p. 244). Most of the chapter has also been reprinted in Tensions That Cause Wars, edited by Hadley Cantril (Univ. of Ill. Press, 1950).;

About the Author :
Harry Stack Sullivan, HELEN SWICK PERRY, MARY LADD GAWEL, M.D. MABEL BLAKE COHEN