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The hypostatic theory of personality
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By
Jeff Conrad
Saturday,
March 15, 2008
Laying on a long-standing tradition, the systemic orientation in psychology (in its broadest sense) gave birth in the 20th century to a series of theories and models of personality.
In the hypostatic view, proposed by psychologist Dr. Codrin Stefan Tapu, personality consists of four subsystems (or "hypostases"): cognitive ('Homo Sapiens' - the intelligent and creative person), linguistic ('Homo Loquens' - the speaking and communicating person), energetic ('Homo Potens' - the powerful person), and pragmatic ('Homo Faber' - the productive person).
These subsystems of content are being bound in emerging functional couples, of two kinds:
- Psychical axes: cognitive-pragmatic (adaptive) axis, and linguistic-energetic (regulative) axis;
- Peripheral psychical dyads.
While the axes are supporting the global adaptation of the person and its superior regulation respectively, the dyads are each coordinating one of the specific types of activity within the broad adaptation process, as follows: the cognitive-linguistic dyad - cognitive activities, the cognitive-energetic dyad - affective activities, the linguistic-pragmatic dyad - practical activities, and the energetic-pragmatic dyad - non-verbal social behavior ('expression').
In this manner, the model provides a tree-leveled image of psychological functioning, with a subsystemic level, a coordinating, functional couples level, and a global activity level.
In addition to the active ('doing') dimension of personality just described, there is also a constitutive ('being made') dimension, including the constitutive axes - each one of them formed of a mental content (trait), a function related to it, and their brain and environmental correlates, respectively. Each one of the constitutive axes consists of two inter-generated couples: one formed by the brain factor and a psychological function, generating a psychological content or trait, and the other one formed by the psychological content an an environmental correlate, generating the psychological function. For example, aggressive behavior is determined by environmental factors and aggressiveness, whereas aggressiveness itself, as a trait, is the product of both brain predisposition and aggressive behavior.
This constitutive model creates a frame for analysis of the dynamic and interactive psychological function, content, and development.
The model implies several areas of research:
1. Area of development assessment. The functional couples methodology permits a complex assessment of development, through the method of causal-dynamic analysis, which studies psychological development and the dynamic forces that propel it;
2. Area of present personality assessment uses the following methods:
- The human liberty test; it assesses the degree of liberty of the behavior as an indicator of mental health;
- The test of prints of consciousness; it measures the degree of organization and stability of the activity, assessing the functional disorders of behavior;
3. Area of psychotherapy involves, among other things, the method of relational therapy, which addresses the disordes of specific interpersonal communicational relations.
The research on diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders led the author to put forward a classification of those disorders based on some discoveries made on their manifestations and causes. This classification includes axial, dyadic, structural, and relational disorders.
The research conducted on the relation between biological and psychological behaviors shows that in normal circumstances the two are not internally connected, instead forming a rather contiguous entity. Their "systemization" only takes place in disorders involving asthenic phenomena.
The work remains open to researchers and therapists who want to join one of the new ways to the human mind.
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