Human Development
Inter-personality
Description:
Right from baby-hood, an individual's development depends very heavily on his or her relationships with others. One learns to refer one's behaviour and achievements to the responses they elicit from other people and to modify them to produce desired-for responses. The first interpersonal experiences are to do with an awareness of separateness from the world in general and mother in particular; then there is learning to talk and also the development of rationality. All these are aided or hampered by the responses of other people. Particularly in close relationships, there is interpersonal exchange of feelings, when one person "picks up" feelings of cheerfulness, misery, guilt, energy, listlessness and so on, from another.Related:
Transpersonal psychology