Potential Correspondences

Other Mental State Typologies

In one sense, all taxonomic Typologies are about mental states because they deal with mind-sets. However, there are at least three well-established frameworks whose Types invite comparison or correspondence to the Mental Stabilization systems. They each deal with social interaction and mental states. These are:

  • Interacting for Benefit: PH'6Qt4
  • Primal Quests: RH'
  • Ethical Choice: PH'6

Cf. Interacting for Benefit: PH'6Qt4

The concerns in the interacting for benefit framework are for personal well-being (a mental state) and productivity (a social output). This framework belongs within the sphere of ethics(PH'6) in the taxonomy.

Certain correspondences immediately suggest themselves, but these are superficial.
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Market-centredness might suggest a correspondence with Individual existence (via achievement) or Vital existence (via impersonality); and the emotionality of Power-centredness might suggest a link with Emotional existence. However, looked at more closely other associations could easily be proposed. Market-c might just as easily be linked to Social existence (purpose, responsibility) or Sensory existence (networking). Power-c might just as easily be linked with Individual existence (status, respect).

Or perhaps it works in the reverse i.e. an interacting-for-benefit method is precluded by a particular Stabilization method. For example, a person dependent on Transpersonal existence might be expected to abjure Power-centredness, since brute force and domination are seemingly antithetical. But the scandals of spiritual leaders are well known: all too often they exploit their power and use it to obtain sexual favours and money.

What must be recognized is that mental stabilization is necessary and beyond self-interest. By contrast, the interacting-for-benefit framework is about the exercise of self-interest within a collective setting.

Ethics is subsidiary to existence. Inner stability is required for effective functioning including the pursuit of self-interest. When the mind is destabilized, a person's life becomes disrupted, effectiveness is degraded and emergency mechanisms, often dysfunctional or in the form of illness, come into play.
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Cf. Primal Quests: RH'

The Primal Quest framework specifies alternative ways to approach life in general. The chosen Quest can be a guide throughout life, but often it comes to the forefront later when family pressures reduce. Endeavours chosen under the influence of the preferred Primal Quest feel generally 'right'.

The Primal Quests have a certain similarity to the Mental Stabilization systems in that they operate:

■ in relation to all endeavours
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■ potentially throughout life.

However, your Quest can be taken up or ignored for substantial periods without serious personal harm or social disruption: something that is impossible in regard to your Stabilization method.

Again, certain correspondences may present themselves, but they do not withstand scrutiny.
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However, there is one similarity that bears mentioning. The 'in a nutshell' summary of the methods bears some resemblance to the TET-based self and society summary of the Primal Quests. This calls for further investigation: it may be a more general property of psychosocial field organization rather than a specific correspondence.

Cf. Ethical Choice PH'6

By contrast to the above, the Stabilization Methods (PH'4) do appear to show connections with the Ethical Choice Typology (PH'6). They can be linked by ethical aspirations as follows:

PH'6-L'7: Transcendentalist aspiration is for spirituality.
PH'4-L'7: Transpersonal existence values spirituality.

PH'6-L'6: Legitimist aspiration is for the common good.
PH'4-L'6: Social existence values groups and society.

PH'6-L'5: Communalist aspiration is for altruism.
PH'4-L'5: Relational existence values selfless concern for partners.

PH'6-L'4: Individualist aspiration is for strength.
PH'4-L'4: Individual existence values personal achievement.

PH'6-L'3: Pragmatist-Pluralist aspiration is for ideals.
PH'4-L'3: Emotional existence values personal feelings about what is good.

PH'6-L'2: Conventionalist aspiration is for continuity.
PH'4-L'2: Vital existence values daily regimens for physical health.

PH'6-L'1: Rationalist aspiration is for solutions.
PH'4-L'1: Sensory existence values reduction in inner tensions.

It seems as if the Purpose-PH6 system as a whole (i.e. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary hierarchies) is closely linked with the Experience-PH4 system via motivational forces as shown in Master-Figure 16 (Ch. 8).

More research is required to validate and understand this linkage. As above, the seeming correspondence may be a reflection of a more general phenomenon as yet unknown.

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Originally posted:  15-Oct-2014. Last updated 22-Dec-2014.