Gittinger Seminar Notes - Lecture 7

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Lecture 7 - Expressed, Suppressed, Repressed Adjustments

• I has feelings, but does not show them. Stronger the feelings, the less responsive. 61
• I under pressure to show feelings, appropriate feelings. 61
• As adult, if has control of feelings, under stress does not allow feelings to interfere with effectiveness in relationships. 61
• E "act-out". I "act-in". 61 62
• Expressed initial response state - stays like initial state. 62
• Expressed dependent on external help to not be totally expressive of initial response state. 62
• Repressed - guilty about initial response state. 63
• Iu expressed, uncontrolled Iuu actively autistic without much control over the tendency. 63
• Iuc awareness of felt need to not be to internalized. Depends upon external support to keep active. 63
• Iuc+ interested in the party - structured relationship. 64
• Iuc+ want people around all the time. Likely insomnia. 64
• Iuc+ insomniac will get up and wander around or find bar. 64
• Ic is suppressed I activities. 64
• Suppressed and disciplined I means using ideational activity in effective ways. 65
• Repression - I develops technique to control I by self-control. 65
• Icu inhibiting I but no really effectively using it. 65
• Ic+u+ catatonic - frozen repressing I with no kind of utilization. 66
• Icc+ suppresses I but uses it intellectually. 66
• Iuc+ socially oriented, Icc+ very intellectually oriented. 66
• Euu uncontrolled expressed E - overreacts to all stimuli in the environment. 66
• Euc aware of over-responsiveness - shame or anxiety about being Eu so works out control. 67
• Euc+ over controls - any activity than be non-responsive, non-relating. 67
• Euc+ protective of relationships in order to avoid showing feeling. 67
• Ic can relate with little tension; Ec always over controlled. 67
• Ec+ highly defensive - defensive person characteristic of Ec+ repression. 68
• Ec+u no particular utilization of emotionality and intensity - highly inhibited. 68
• Ic can work in noisy room being interested in what he is doing. Ec cannot completely cut out noise so will be fatigued. 68
• Ic in noisy hotel room - pull drapes and "to hell with it." Ec angry at hotel manager and wants new room. 69
• Ec+ "nothing bothers me" - but repressed but not aware they still respond - this is what "repression" means. 69
• E-children wet bed - during day tense trying to be controlled - relax at night. 69