The first American to construct a comprehensive theory of personality is Harry Stack Sullivan, consisting of the belief the development of personality is from a social context. Sullivan contends without other people personality to not exist. The isolation of a personality from a complex of interpersonal relations can never occur in which the person has his being and lives, according to Sullivan. The knowledge of human personality according to Sullivan can only be gained through rigorous, scientific study of interpersonal relations. The emphasis of his interpersonal theory is on the importance of the developmental stages: infancy, childhood, the juvenile era, preadolescence, early adolescence, late adolescence, and adulthood. A person's ability to establish intimacy with others may determine healthy human development, yet unfortunately anxiety can cause interference with the satisfaction of interpersonal relations during any of the mentioned developmental stages. It may be for preadolescence to represent the most crucial of developmental stages, where children first become capable of the capacity for intimacy yet have not attained an age where lustful interests complicate their intimate relationships. The belief of Sullivan is the achievement of healthy development in people when they are capable of experiencing both lust and intimacy toward the same other person.
About the Author: Steven grows-up in a small town in Boston, Massachusetts playing with other children in his neighborhood. Steven leads a mostly quiet life spending much of his time devoted to his studies. Steven views himself more as a curious person than as a genius. He was born on July 13, 1975, his father was a machinist and mother Beverly was daughter to a machinist. Steven liked running and climbing but most of all he liked collecting, match box cars, baseball cards, muscle men figures, and pretty much anything else he could get his hands on. Steven grows-up with his two sisters who as mentioned earlier lead a relatively quiet life. Steven at times rebels at home by sneaking out of the house at night to join in the endeavors of locals in the neighborhood. Steven succeeds within University of Phoenix receiving a Bachelor of Science degree graduating with honors. Steven has written 30 total in print books. This is where most of Steven's authority in writing resides. Through his intense study and writing routine he has become an SME in various domains. He is currently continuing his studies within a terminal master's degree IO psychology program at SNHU of which he is being conferred during the summer of 2015.