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  2. Relational dialectics - Wikipedia

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    Relational dialectics is an interpersonal communication theory about close personal ties and relationships that highlights the tensions, struggles, and interplay between contrary tendencies. [1] The theory, proposed respectively by Leslie Baxter [ 2 ] and Barbara Montgomery [ 3 ] in 1988, defines communication patterns between relationship ...

  3. Emotionally focused therapy - Wikipedia

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    Attachment theory is seen to subsume the search for personal autonomy, dependability of the other and a sense of personal and interpersonal attractiveness, love-ability and desire. Johnson's approach to EFT aims to reshape attachment strategies towards optimal inter-dependency and emotion regulation, for resilience and physical, emotional, and ...

  4. Relational psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    From a theoretical perspective, Lothane has criticized the term "relational" in favor of Harry Stack Sullivan's term "interpersonal". Lothane developed his concepts of "reciprocal free association" as well as "dramatology" as ways of understanding the interpersonal or relational dimension of psychoanalysis. [11]

  5. Interpersonal compatibility - Wikipedia

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    The understanding of a nature of these relations helps to solve a number of problems of the interpersonal relations, including aspects of psychological and sexual compatibility. The researches of married couples by Aleksandr Bukalov et al., have shown that the family relations submit to the laws, which are opened by socionics. The study of ...

  6. Interpersonal acceptance–rejection theory - Wikipedia

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    Interpersonal acceptance–rejection theory (IPARTheory), [1] was authored by Ronald P. Rohner at the University of Connecticut.IPARTheory is an evidence-based theory of socialization and lifespan development that attempts to describe, predict, and explain major consequences and correlates of interpersonal acceptance and rejection in multiple types of relationships worldwide.

  7. Relational-cultural therapy - Wikipedia

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    That is, relationships are both the indicators for, and the healing mechanism in psychotherapy toward, mental health and wellness. One of the core tenets of RCT is the Central Relational Paradox (CRP). The CRP assumes that we all have a natural drive toward relationships, and in these relationships we long for acceptance.

  8. Harry Stack Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892 – January 14, 1949) was an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that "personality can never be isolated from the complex interpersonal relationships in which [a] person lives" and that "[t]he field of psychiatry is the field of interpersonal relations under any and all circumstances in which [such] relations exist". [1]

  9. Interdependence theory - Wikipedia

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    Interdependence theory is a social exchange theory that states that interpersonal relationships are defined through interpersonal interdependence, which is "the process by which interacting people influence one another's experiences" [1] (Van Lange & Balliet, 2014, p. 65). The most basic principle of the theory is encapsulated in the equation I ...