| Term | Definition |
| Names of Neo-Freudians | Erich Fromm, Karen Horney, & Harry Stack Sullivan |
| Personality Theory | View social factors as the primary determinants of personality |
| Horney Personality Theory | Most interested in early interpersonal relationships. |
| Sullivan Personality Theory | Emphasized the importance of interpersonal relationships throughout the lifespan. |
| Fromm Personality Theory | Interested in the impact of the structure and dynamics of society of personality development. |
| Maladaptive Behavior-Horney | Saw anxiety as the result of the child's social relationships, especially the child's relationships with his/her parents. |
| Anxiety | Is a pervasive feeling of being helpless and isolated in a potentially hostile world. |
| Maladaptive Behavior - Sullivan | Recognition of the impact of congitive factors. Sullivan distinguished between three modes of cognitive experience: The prototaxic mode; the parataxic mode; and the syntaxic mode. |
| Prototaxic Mode | Characterizes the first few months of live. It involves a "discrete serious of momentary states" and is a necessary precondition for the other two modes. |
| Parataxic Mode | Is characterized by seeing causal connections between events occurring about the same time but which are unrelated. |
| Syntaxic Mode | Emerges at the end of the first year of life. It involves logical, sequential, internally-consistent, and modifiable thinking and underlies the acquisition of language. |
| Fromm's Maladaptive Behavior | reflects his interest in how society inhibits people from fulfilling their human nature, or capacity "to be creative, lvoing, unalienated, and productive". |
| Therapeutic Goals | To identify and correct a client's parataxic distortions so he or she can have more realistic and mutually satisfying relationships. "One achieves mental health to the extent that one becomes aware of one's interpersonal relationships" |
| Therapeutic Techniques | Therapist should assume the role of "participant observer." |
