The Analyt's Role Author:Robertiello, Friedman, Pollens The book is the first major expansion and reformulation of Interpersonal Theory since the death of Harry Stack Sullivan in 1949. It introduces certain new concepts of personality, in particular the concepts of the Ventral Paranoia and the g Personality. It applies Interpersonal Theory in accurate detail to the customs, potentials, and rigiditi... more »es of Western civilization, defining the patterns in the dominant culture which determine individual despair. It sets the psychological base for human hope and delineates the active elements which need to be affirmed in people's experience in order for human capacities to be realized.« less