HS Sullivan's Definition_Schizophrenia
(Video_UNDER CONSTRUCTION; but for present Sullivanian understanding in these matters go to "Britneyzian Prophecies" or "Nadel-Spears")

PROFOUND Sullivan- It's EASY to see the difference between him & Freud

Gay / Homoerotic Behavior (according to Sullivan):

“… to think that one can remedy personality warp by tinkering with the sex life is a mistake... It may provide them with fees for enjoying their interest in pornography; but if one is a serious psychiatrist..."

"is told by a psychiatrist that such intimacy is what he is after–or has, by his own paranoid processes, come to feel that this is what he is after, and the psychiatrist agrees with him–then he and the psychiatrist are talking about something that is, in its ultimate essence, merely a revolting difference between him and good people. That is all."

Sullivan's DEFINITIONS:
"One finds that the individual who has had a schizophrenic illness HAS NOT, in the first place, developed the abrupt manifestations of hereditarily-determined deterioration in the life processes. 
Instead, he has stood in a significantly and distinctly difficult position in the social situation in which he has lived; … he has come upon certain situations which were most serious in their negative effect upon his self-esteem; and after encountering these situations  (which include as significant factors only other people, AFTER, perhaps, a rebuff to his self-assertion), he has shown a significant and characterizable failure to react by any of the methods of reacting to rebuff which are more or less well known to all of us from our personal experience.

We find that the stricken individual, following the peculiar and characterizable failure to react to rebuff, has lost a great part of that confidence in the integrity of the universe, the goodness of G-d, and so on, which is our common human heritage from infancy; and that from thence onwards she goes on feeling decidedly uncertain about life.

Apparently, if one is sufficiently uncertain about life, one loses the cognitive assets which serve us in distinguishing products of autistic or purely subjective reverie from products which include important factors residing in so-called external reality; and when one has lost this ability to distinguish between such reveries and such objects having more external points of reference, one begins to sink into mental processes significantly like those we experience when we are asleep.

With the appearance of a partition in which considerable waking time is spent in a condition in which one is without the ability to tell what has true, genuine, and consensually acceptable external references, and what instead, is purely personal fantasy, there appears a peculiar disorder of social activity (and I might say of even non-social activity), and it is these peculiarities that seem to constitute the essence of schizophrenic behavior."

"Schizophrenia as a Human Process" (HS Sullivan) p.221

"The ‘disturbance’ may precipitate a state which is so completely disorganizing that it may be called – with certain reservations – panic. It may be similar to when something one utterly trusted, collapses – the mixture of terror and blindly disorganized activity causing blind frantic activities. The panic which is from a fugue or abhorrent craving is a very brief complete disorganization.
In this case, the most significant of the things which are disorganized is the structure of one’s beliefs and convictions as to the guarantees and securities and dependable properties of the universe in which one is living. On the far side may be terror to religious exaltation. In any case, the personality is partly torn from its moorings and has moved from what was actually its developmental level into a state which we call the schizophrenic way of life.
In this state, very early types of referential processes occur within clear awareness, to the profound mystification of the person concerned.  And since many of these referential processes are literally historically identical with the composition of the not-me components in personality, their presence is attended by uncanny emotions, sometimes dreadfully strong.
These referential processes seem so bizarre to people who have not had them that the schizophrenic way of life is often described as unpsychological and completely beyond understanding. The justification for such reckless language is that those schizophrenic processes which we encounter represent attempts on the sufferer’s part to communicate types of processes that most of us ceased to have within clear awareness by the time we were two-and-a-half."

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Harry Stack Sullivan_America's Greatest (1892-1949)

MOST American psychiatrists, and many other behavioral scientists, now agree that the most original, influential American-born psychiatrist was Harry Stack Sullivan. He was the foremost developer of what is known as the interpersonal approach to psychiatry.

IN AN ERA BEFORE ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUGS, Dr. Sullivan instituted a special receiving unit at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, and achieved an 80% social-recovery rate amongst previously INCOHERENT SCHIZOPHRENICS. His theories revolutionized American Psychiatry, and continue to do so.

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His impact today... "The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry"

Many years ago William James made the observation that a theory often runs throughTHREE stages in its career.

• First it is attacked as absurd.

• Then, in its second stage, it is admitted to be true but obvious and insignificant.

• In its final stage it is considered to be so important that its adversaries claim they discovered it themselves. I believe Interpersonal Theory is now in its third stage.

Patrick Mullahy
"The Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan"
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What endeared me to Harry Stack Sullivan was his perspective not only on the very nature of schizophrenia itself but on the medical people coming to him as interns:

Dr. - Harry Stack Sullivan on the "Genetic" issue

“Either you believe mental illness are genetic; i.e., acts of G-d, predestined, inexorably fixed, arising from a constitution or some other irremediable substratum – the victims of which are to be helped through an innocuous life, to a more or less euthanistic exit, perhaps contributing along the way as laboratory animals; for the inquires of medicine, pathology, constitution study or whatever,

OR

You believe that mental illness is largely preventable, and somewhat remediable to control by psycho-sociological factors.
In the first case, I have no message for you, being but deluded in believing I have shown the possibility of profoundly modifying the processes called schizophrenic by the use of personality factors.”
(Sullivan Schizophrenia as a Human Process" pp270)

Now, I (The Prophet from Trailopen) will show you how all these "RESEARCH STUDIES" manage to gather data supporting their claims:

"Parent of patient responds positively that they have heard a ‘voice’ telling them they’ve not locked their door or shut off the oven, and they went back up the stairs and checked. They have listened and responded to it only to find it was a type of hallucination*** and they had been 'deluded.' The delusions apparently are limited to household items including lights, oven and whether or not the dog was fed. (***Researcher: “Aw heck, the pharmaceutical company is paying us a lot of money, let’s call it a hallucination”)

("Were all those who entertained mild delusions of this sort to be assembled in institutions, the state would collapse from depopulation")

(Sullivan Schizophrenia as a Human Process" p112):

“… as already indicated in the case of delusions of reference, a great deal of the early phenomenology is the ACCENTUATION of what can be elicited from almost any mild case of mental disorder.
A clear to vague content indicative of (the feeling that other people show) an unfriendly interest in him is general in the psychopathological states.  A great proportion of all maladjusted individuals believe they suffer invidious discussion.
The “neurotic tendency” to detract in a relatively unwitting effort to reduce others to a lower level than that adjudged to self, is evidenced not only in more direct behavior and thinking, but indirectly by projection of these persecutory trends. With ANY EXCUSE, this progresses into notions one is being slighted, annoyed or definitely wronged.
Fantastic meanings attached to the behavior of others, to one’s own action, and even to events among inaminate objects–these too are nonspecific. A remarkable number of those who are not regarded as psychotic entertain beliefs closely akin to delusions of mind-reading and of more or less mysterious control by another.
Hypochondriacal notions form the rationalizations for innumerable maladjustive processes. Somewhat grandiose self-appraisals, on the one hand, and depressive depreciations and self-criticism, on the other, are easily uncovered in a great many patients. “Peculiar thoughts” and even pseudospontaneity are not very uncommon: Obsessions and proccupations typify one large group of the maladjusted.
Were all those who entertained mild delusions of this sort to be assembled in institutions, the state would collapse from depopulation."

(Sullivan Schizophrenia as a Human Process" pp94):

"In our type of society, that sort of organization to which the analyst refers to as the “Oedipus” complex is prone to develop. Instead of an attitude towards the father resembling adult awe or fear or respect or reverence, there grows an attitude of more or less concealed jealousy and hatred. “… even more destructive is the situation in which the woman is the “boss;” in such homes, any possible good which might derive from a benignant matriarchy is utterly swamped in the child’s reaction to the woman’s effort to be a man, yet conform to society, and the man’s effort to protect his self-esteem. When the father is a fanatic, from paranoid feelings or what-not – but this discussion of modern situations could be prolonged indefinitely: The matter of wretched adjustment of one to another parent, and of one or both to the conventional pattern to which they strive to conform, grows more and more important as we try to understand the coming of subsequent disaster to the offspring.
All too generally, these factors effect a castration on the boy, sometimes by frank fear of penal amputation, more usually by placing in him the fiction of fictions – that system of symbols to which we may refer as the notion of Sexual Sin. Well before the occurrence of puberty, when such generic notions might have a real referent, the youth has come to a clear “appreciation” of the black wickedness of all things sexual. He is then loaded with dogma completely divorced from his biological necessities, taught more or less clearly that his hand on his penis is his hand against G-d. he is also filled with the most fanciful notions about feminine goodness, and warned against the “wild” girls.”
(Sullivan Schizophrenia as a Human Process_Peculiarity of Thought in Schizophrenia” p94-95)

Let's take something innocuous within the culture's pathology: being ‘lost in thought.’
This is represented by one of the following general theme of: ‘He will say this to me, and I will say that to him;” fantasy of reverie. In some cases, emotions being what they are in infinite combinations, one may become so deep in thought one is totally unaware of the normal reality taking place around you. You’re driving perfectly, obeying the speed limit, etc., yet when you come out of your reverie and find yourself at the destination, you blink with the shock that you have no awareness of any of the traveling. This can lead to interesting assumptions on the part of unaware, such as my church-friend had who believed G-d had simply picked him up and set him down at the airport.

It is not a far step to move from being lost-in-thought to being lost-in-thought-muttering, and then lost-in-thought-muttering-while-walking-on-the-street. The sense of cultural abandon to which the average citizen in our culture takes this behavior is normally reserved for more private moments, and no data is currently available. Consequently, we normally see only the homeless and deranged moving their mouths lost in this inner dialogue.
The above is simply one example of what Sullivan means when he says “we are all more simply human than otherwise.” It is also what is meant by “schizophrenia as a human process,” as when integrated with the innocuous pathology inherent in our modern culture.

Consequently, it is relatively simple for pharmaceutical companies to pay for research which confirms genetic responsibility for schizophrenia. This is because the percentage of the population who will test positive on their questionnaires is so legion that it doesn’t matter whether you interview the parents of the patient or the people living on either side of their address. The entire population believes they’ve being treated unfairly here or there;’ that people have spoken ill of them behind their back; that they have heard a ‘voice’ telling them they’ve not locked their door or shut off the oven, and have listened and responded to it only to find it was a type of hallucination; or that people are looking at them when they walk into restaurants and the like, and that they’ve been treated unfairly at work because of personal reasons on the part of others, and that they have found themselves tearing others down to make themselves feel better, or else noting that others appear to tear them down (unfairly) in order to make themselves feel better. A good research analyst can make up hundreds of different questions from these latter points to prove the pathological state existed in order to provide those “inherited” genes.

This is the bottom line between doctors working with schizophrenics using increasing insight in an interpersonal relationship in which the therapist does not hide behind the shield of "the doctor" who is above reproach. I came to love Harry Stack Sullivan when he simply stated 'that the patient knows you want him to do something, but is unclear what that something is. The patient has a right to expect, that you, the expert in these matters, communicate effectively enough to let him know what that something "is." Anyone familiar with schizophrenics knows how vulnerable they are. They are even more so with the doctor. It is quite easy for the therapist to shield himself in such matters, remain aloof and leave all the responsibility on the patient's now-failing-even-more shoulders. Anti-psychotic medications hide a multitude of sins. G-d forbid the doctor should question him or herself if they're even in the right field.

Many collect fees being merely a 'describer of symptoms,' classifying behavior into pathology, feeding that back to the patient with the standard 'how-do-you-feel-about-that' and 'what-does-that-make-you-think-of' formulas for all he says. Sitting back removed, allowing the patient to continue lost in useless (for the schizophrenic) free association-type therapy, the meds ease the patient along to his euthanistic exit. The above quote is from Harry Stack Sullivan, a pioneer who wouldn't hire manythese present laissez-faire "doctors" even as attendants.
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REINTEGRATION POSSIBILITIES I ...(ITP p.327)

If the eventualities of a fugue, or eruption of abhorrent cravings, are followed by experience which is able to terminate the association of a major part of the particular motivational system with these uncanny emotions, and associate it with the main trends of personality development, then we would have achieved the INTEGRATION of a previously dissociated motivational system with the rest of the personality, and there would be none of this dreadful spectacle of the schizophrenic way of life, with its exceedingly ominous probable outcomes.

There is a dream symbolism existing within the personality of the schizophrenic in this state. If the sufferer can become aware of this through an objective perception (such as audio and video recording) concurrent with psychoanalytic insight, we can expect to see re-integration on a scale psychiatry has not yet seen. See Fugue state.

This (above) is THE ESSENSE OF the benefit from the Observation Exercise ('Be Still & Know') available for download FREE at www.trailopen.com or www.fhu.com .
In order to see how the 'Observation Exercise' CAN terminate the association of a major part of the particular motivational system with these uncanny emotions, and associate it with the main trends of personality development, read my comments as well as free sample chapter of Challenging the Darkness as THE breakthrough piece in the puzzle linking sexual fantasy experienced at the peak of release to childhood trauma/and/or resentments.

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REINTEGRATION POSSIBILITIES II ...(ITP p.362)

My Britneyzian Prophecies demonstrate the same faith.
"...on the immense benefits of having ...reintegration, within... a moment of “illumination” in "Schizophrenia as a Human Process:"

"These occur when, by EXTREMELY FORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCE, ONE ACTUALLY SEES, to a considerable extent,"

[in this case because it is captured on Video Tape]

"a real situation that one has been selectively inattending to previously, so that one is really better oriented."

(ITP_pp362) Adding… “…that any increase in correct insight would be helpful to the sufferer goes without saying.”
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The Britneyzian Prophecies 1-8 are created with this above statement in mind. using Sullivan's texts, alonside of Jung and Roy Masters, a portrait of this "real situation that Britney had been Selectively Inattending to " is made manifest for the sufferer'd benefit.

REINTEGRATION POSSIBILITIES III ...(SHP p.114):
"...it is at this point that there may be massive resynthesis amounting to recovery with profit."

Let's see what ideas surround this above quotes:

"In a study centering upon cognitive features ("Peculiarity of Thought in Schizophrenia” -SHP), I have demonstrated several points bearing particularly upon the evolution of schizophrenic panic, and somewhat upon the insidious forms. We have come to regard all initial manifestations of these illnesses as strikingly uniform. From the standpoint of content, there appear those processes and symbol elaborations customary in dreaming. Instead of turning “day-remnants” to that purpose, the schizophrenic cognitive operations deal with perceptions of reality, personal and impersonal. All these – like the figures of a dream – are distorted into use for representing the personal situation and for efforts at solving it. It is at this stage that the patient believes he is being watched and followed – the observers personifying in some cases the lower ideals which cannot control his desires of lower cultural value by ordinary activity. In others, they are personifications of “evil” desires which pursue him to assault or “rob” and degrade him. In the first situation, exteriorization takes the form of “the voice of G-d,” and in the second, the hallucination of threats or foul epithets. This sort of content connects with a more or less terrible affective situation of a primitive sort – an “insane mood” which has pre-existed the clear-cut cognitive phenomena. The motivation at work is in a general way conflicting groups of elaborated (and more or less successfully repressed) personal tendencies opposed by tendencies of the nature of ideals (cultural controls). The disturbance in reality appraisal which has been slow in the prodromol stages, is now very swift, progressing to a stage in which everything is involved in the cognitive efforts.

This stage in which nothing is without an incomprehensible meaning, and the ordinary exchange of intelligence is palsied, may continue in relative simple elaboration. This is the catatonic type of schizophrenia. In it, the conflicts remain unresolved, the struggle expands into cosmic dramas, and the psychic processes revert through the ontogenic repertory, perhaps down to the most primitive. At any time, however, the situation may pass into one of a few typical attempts at readjustment: There may be massive resynthesis amounting to recovery with profit."

Roy Masters and Britney
A short series of insights from Roy Masters on Britney

Sullivan's Thoughts on Many Psychiatrists

What endeared me to Harry Stack Sullivan was his perspective not only on the very nature of schizophrenia itself but on the medical people coming to him for their residencies and/or interns: This is a quote from the Introduction to Schizophrenia as a Human Process:

“There come to me physicians seeking insight into the problems of the mind. They come to me as well trained physicians and therefore with an acquired inability to understand anything I say to them. I don’t believe that if they stayed with me from now until Gabriel blows his hornpipes that they will acquire much notion of what I am talking about  - or privately give a damn. They are already educated, they have a degree of Doctor of Medicine, and they have a whole system of ideas that takes its origins from certain misunderstandings about physical chemistry – on things which they probably don’t realize are physico-chemical subjects – and they are pretty well organized.”

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HOMOSEXUALITY
Re: Dr. Blechner's article "The Gay Sullivan"

HS Sullivan, from "The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry" (ITP) p.295

“… to think that one can remedy personality warp by tinkering with the sex life is a mistake, even though it is very convenient doctrine for psychiatrists who are chronic juveniles. It may provide them with fees for enjoying their interest in pornography; but if one is a serious psychiatrist..."

See Below for more on this:

Notes on sex from Sullivan lecturing to other psychiatrists on SEXUALITY:

p.295 (CONTINUED FROM ABOVE) “… to think that one can remedy personality warp by tinkering with the sex life is a mistake, even though it is very convenient doctrine for psychiatrists who are chronic juveniles. It may provide them with fees for enjoying their interest in pornography; but if one is a serious psychiatrist, when one is presented with difficulties in the sex life of a patient as the reason the patient is seeking help, my experience has demonstrated rather convincingly that the patient’s difficulties in living is shown rather in his choosing this subject to present as his difficulty. In other words, people don’t go to psychiatrists to be aided in their sexual difficulties; but they do sometimes present this as their problem, and such problems show, when properly understood, what ails their living with people.

This let me warn my fellow psychiatrists: If you want to do psychiatry that can well be crowded into a lifetime, see if you can’t find something besides the sexual problem in the strangers that come to you for help. Quite frequently it is no trick at all to find something very much more serious than the sexual difficulty; and quite often the sexual difficulty is remedied in the process of dealing with the other problems. You may notice there is a slight difference here between  my views  and some of the views that have been circulated in historic times.”*
* ...obviously a dry reference to Sigmund Freud.

Notes REGARDING Homosexuality ("Clinical Studies in Psychiatry" Sullivan_pp163):

As I have indicated earlier, I think that the whole business of the homosexual entity as an explanation is always to be looked pretty firmly in the face by psychiatrists who attempt to effect any great improvement in the mental health of the patient. One should determine whether this entity is the organization of a definite integrating tendency that satisfies a need or whether it is a complex mental disorder in which the homosexuality is present because it so perfectly fortifies some abnormal mental process, some dynamism of difficulty. Where a person has felt that life is eminently worth living only in the preadolescent stage, when he did enjoy great intimacy with another person of the same sex, irrespective of whether that great intimacy was what may be described as on the non-genital or the genital level, I am quite willing to deal with that person on the basis that he is engaged in actual direct pursuit of satisfaction from members of his own sex, or as in homosexuality, as it may be easily called.
But where such experience is missing from a person’s life, then I think one is doing a great violence to the therapeutic principle  to accept the notion that that person has anything like a simple drive to secure genital satisfaction by any type of behavior with members of the same sex. To work on this assumption, and to deal with this patient’s “homosexuality,’ is, to my way of thinking, one of the most vicious miscarriages of therapeutic situations. It takes out of the culture a group of terms, which, in referring to behavior, carry all the culture’s evaluations of that behavior.
You see, if the patient has not found great warmth and satisfaction in intimacy with a member of his own sex, but later on is told by a psychiatrist that such intimacy is what he is after–or has, by his own paranoid processes, come to feel that that is what he is after, and the psychiatrist agrees with him–then he and the psychiatrist are talking about something that is, in its ultimate essence, merely a revolting difference between him and good people. That is all.
In has no meaning in terms of something that he has experienced, that he has undergone, and that therefore is a part of him. But it does have meaning as a particular type of horribly derogatory formulation. Thus, to attack a paranoid state, for example, on the basis of an attempt to understand the patient’s homosexuality is an atrocious miscarriage of the therapeutic process. This is a very nifty way to make it beyond the most perchance that any intimacy will be established with that patient. The psychiatrist’s approach means” Abandon all hope of a feeling of personal security, and then we might be able to do something.” But the developmental processes which we all have to undergo make it simply inconceivable that there is any such thing as abandoning all hope of personal security. So of course, what the psychiatrist does is to provide the patient with a new paranoid world, in which the psychiatrist is unconsciously taking a very important part. And since he is much more patiently engaged in hateful activity than anybody the patient has previously found, the patient may attempt homicide on the psychiatrist one day. But other than that I can think of no spectacular result except the passing of time.
So it is quite important indeed to discriminate between, first the isophilic phase of personality development and the satisfactions that can be acquired then, and second, the innumerable unhappy caricatures of living to which the term homosexuality is sometimes applied.
The people who have gotten well into the preadolescent phase of personality development before possibilities of further growth failed, and come to us with their life problems formulated in terms of homosexual concepts, are still somewhat near reality.
But people who have not gotten as far as the preadolescent phase of personality development, and who come to us with their life problems formulated in terms of homosexuality, are showing a very much more complex distortion of interpersonal relations and offer a much more treacherous basis for therapeutic relationships because they are that much less mature. Thus this discrimination has prognostic significance.
It is a discrimination between what is a sort of frantic exploration on the base of what is verbal prescriptions, as compared with regressive retreats from hopelessly difficult situations to a time in the past that was actually satisfactory, with new collisions perhaps with the culture in the process. Naturally the latter is much the simpler to attack, and the prognosis–the outcome–is much more apt to become favorable. But if, on the other hand, you combine these two into some doctrine of homosexuality as applied to factors in schizophrenia, paranoid states or what have you, then you have missed the whole point of interpersonal psychiatry, and your results will be sufficiently mongrel so that you will never be able to feel very secure about what is what. But, on the other hand, you will never have any convincing demonstration of being completely wrong.

Since I have set up three classifications of intimacy, four classifications of the general interpersonal objective of the integration of lust, and six classifications of genital relationship, this results in seventy-two combinations, which shrinks to forty-five theoretical patterns of sexual behavior in situations involving two real partners.

From this statement, I would like you to realize how fatuous it is to toss out the adjectives “heterosexual,” homosexual, or “narcissistic” in order to classify a person as to his sexual integrations with others. Such classifications are nowhere near refined enough for intelligent thought; they are much too gross to do much except mislead. For example, to talk about homosexuality being the problem in this context really means about as much as humanity being the problem.

Because the disorders of sexual adjustment are ruinous to other development, we must devote considerable attention to the patterning of this form of behavior.

Two major divisions:

isophilic (a term of preference for individuals approximately equal in general characteristics  of personality); and
xenophilic (a term to relate a preference for individuals significantly different in general characteristics  of personality than the subject-individual).

Within the zones of interaction between the individual and the environment, we have the erogenous zones of
oral, anal and genital.

We may classify autoeroticism, homoeroticism and heteroeroticism. We will expand our meaning in order to realize that erogeny includes the securing of pleasure-giving sentience directly from the interaction zones and mediately by pleasure given to another.

Autoeroticism
Self-masturbation, the manual and related manipulation of the genitals, is only ONE FORM of autosexual behavior.
While autoerotic interests implies desire to secure one or more of the various forms of pleasant sentience deriving from one of the zones of interaction with one’s own body, it need not be only by way of self-manipulation. A situation (which is only) objectively appraised as one of normal sexual intercourse of a man with a woman may be, and often in fact is, for one or the other party – if not for both – one of autosexual behavior rather than that of heterosexual. The male using his wife’s vagina as a substitute for his hand is the most common example of these behaviors.

The conception of homoerotic and heteroerotic similarly refers to the desire to secure pleasure, but now by prehension of the pleasure of another derived from the manipulation, by the subject-individual, of some zone of interaction of the object-individual’s body.
The homoerotic interest manifests as inclination to the pleasure-giving manipulation of another person of the same sex; the heteroerotic, one of the other sex. Homosexual behavior is then the manipulation of the genitals of a member of the same sex, for the pleasure experienced in his enjoyment.
Heterosexual behavior is the manipulation of the erogenous zone of one of the other sex, for the satisfaction derived by prehension of the other’s pleasure as well as satisfaction of the lust dynamism.

Consequently, at the very least, we have the manifestations of the two powerful integrating tendencies, the need for intimacy and lust being classified as:
1. Autophilic / autosexual (sex with oneself;
Isophilic / homosexual (people similar to oneself;same-sex partner) and heterophilic / heterosexual (opposite sex); on the basis of the preferred partner in lustful integrations: and (categorigacally leaving out sex with beasts and the dead)

2. On the basis of genital participation or substitution – as
orthogenital, paragenital, metagenital, amphigenital, mutual masturbation and onanism (sex-with-animals and sex-with-the-dead).
Now I invite you to consider these. The first of these refers to the gross characteristics of integrations which seek the discharge of the lust dynamism, which are directly related to recognized lust and its satisfaction. Sexual behavior of a preferred partner (homosexual, hetrosexual or autosexual).
In (2), we consider the lust dynamism in terms of the genital participation in covert or overt, witting or unwitting, lustful performances; and here we are talking about a region of the body. Situations principally integrated by lust are sexual situations; but at the same time the patterning of this behavior depends on the part played by the genitals, as well as the lustful character of the situation.
On the basis of one’s genital participation with another, or with a substitute, I have named six rubrics, most of which are neologism of my own invention.  Four are listed below, as well as mutual masturbation, and those dealing with  sex-with-animals and sex-with-the-dead are dealt with elsewhere.

Orthogenital situations are characterized by a preferred integrations of one’s genitals with their natural receptor genitals – genitals of the sexually opposite type.

Paragenital situations involve using the genitals as if they were seeking an appropriate opposite type of genitals, but does so in behavior which is not related to the procreation of one’s kind. A common example is being masturbated by someone else, in which case the hand is the paragenital receptor of one’s genitals; other examples are the passive role in fellatio or the active role in pederasty/sodomy.

Metagenital situations involve sex without one’s genitals being involved at all, but the other person’s genitals are involved. The most obvious example is masturbating someone else; other examples are taking the active role in fellatio or the passive role in pederasty/sodomy .

Amphigenital (69). For this the French have adopted the term “soixante-neuf.” Either homosexual or heterosexual groups  of two people take a singularly analogous if not identical relationship to the genitals of each and the substitutes of each. Besides these, there are the relatively primitive performance of mutual masturbation.

I would put these above concepts to the test in early 1980. My own therapist at the time (Dr. Daniel Paul), cautioned me against seeking a homosexual partner as a ‘release’ from my frustrated yearnings relating to homoerotic fantasy. I believe Dr. Paul stands in opposition to Dr. Blechner's point of view, and I give the most scintillating behavioral review ever written regarding my consequent choice - spelled out, as it were, in a booth in the backroom of an adult bookstore. Much of my sexual prose is of a nature never before seen. In: http://www.trailopen.com/To_be_teaser.html

HS Sullivan - in his own words - criticising Psychiatry like that practiced by Dr. Blechner; specifically SEXUALITY in PSYCHIATRY.
If the above has wetted your curiosity, then you must go to my improved videos in which I do something never before done regarding a video elaboration of Sullivan’s ‘Substitute Processes’ in a schizophrenic individual’s growing insipient state of ever-increasing schizophrenia as she loses more and more identity to an “advantage taker.” (p359_ITP) For a quick look on this, go to Episode 6.

If you check out my module on Light4Brit, ESPECIALLY (in later episodes) the substitute processes keeping the dissociation and awareness separate; pointing that out CLEARLY in her dialogue with the person “taking advantage of her” (p.358 ITP) is THE EPITOME OF INTERPERSONAL THEORY regarding devolvement into schizophrenia.

I mentioned to the reader the work done here outlining in video a reflection of the “Security Operations for Maintaining Selective Inattention” found on pages 346-7 (ITP) as well as substitute processes found on pages 357 to middle of p358 (ITP).

I would think the opportunity to see whether or not an individual is playing out – in her own video – the exact representations of later mental disorder outlined in a famous text by Sullivan would be of interest to a serious student of personality disorder. The opportunity to relieve “blocking” (ITP_357-8) by having the opportunity to see oneself performing that psychological function on video – where the interpersonal dynamism is caught – would be a novel idea to demonstrate an approved therapeutic concept (see below). Given psychiatry’s success rate today with schizophrenia, one wonders ‘what’s to lose?’ Imagine the significance of an individual LEAVING A TRAIL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL  BREADCRUMBS TO BE USED FOR HER LATER REVIVAL FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA? Isn't Psychiatry tired of merely keeping sick people “alive and functioning” rather than “cured”?

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