Sublime

Deviations from expected values to determine mental advantages and disadvantages

Our approach drew on Bernard Weiner’s attribution theory, but it differed from Weiner in three ways.

He suggests that there are eight different learning styles.

their own efforts improved due to his valuable insights which he’d held back before for fear of offending someone.

‘In his determination to find short cuts, he is apt to be slap-dash and erratic … though his approach shows some signs of originality, he is a very hard man to teach and will, I believe, be an even harder one to place …’

Pathological (e.g. delusional projection) ii. Immature (e.g. passive aggression) iii. Neurotic (e.g. hypochondriasis) iv. Mature (e.g. humour / altruism).

If you worked in the civil service and you had a higher degree of control8 over your work, you were a lot less likely to become depressed or develop severe emotional distress than people working at the same pay level, with the same status, in the same office, as people with a lower degree of control over their work.

There are three basic systems at work, two enabling us to be ON, one enabling us to switch OFF. Both of the ON systems manage and direct our energies and attention towards or away from things in our world in anxiety, fear, reward or pleasure.

Up to now most of the publications of this “Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy” (the predecessors being the Freudian and Adlerian Schools) have been chiefly in German.