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Thus, early developing dispositions may undergo “vicissitudes,” whereby their meaning in the context of the whole organism is subsequently reformed into complex personality configurations. At a slightly more finite level of specification are what we have termed the personality subtypes. This idea of subtypes recognizes two fundamental facts. The first derives from the chance side of the evolutionary equation, and draws on the long descriptive tradition in psychology and psychiatry, as perhaps best expressed in the From Philosophy to Theory 31 works of the turn of the century nosologist Emil Kraepelin: In the ordinary course of clinical work, we find that every disorder seems to sort itself into ever finer subcategories, which rest on an a priori basis, but instead flow from cultural and social factors and their interaction with biological influences such as constitution, temperament, or perhaps even systematic neurological defects.

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P. 20) COMPUTER NETWORK MODEL An analogy that is more contemporaneous and in keeping with the movement toward unified personality (see Magnavita, chapter 24) is the analogy of a network composed of interconnected computers capable of interaction and communication. A computer network seems to reflect the way personality systems function on an intrapsychic level (individual computer hardware—genetic and neurobiological, and software capability—attachment and relational experience); dyadic level (communication process among two computers); triadic + N (communication among three computers); and also in the larger mesosystem (interconnected computer networks).

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