Tetrads & Gervais - Light & Dark
The 'good'
2022July: These were mostly developed in 2018 but I'm not sure if they are in this site. The conversion makes it harder to find material, unfortunately.
These Tetrads follow the TEA format but with a central portion. compare these with the Temperament Model [Kernberg's growth model in VJ style] where Borderline personalities emerge from the psychotic birth and autistic initial stages as a point of emergence of 'personality preference'.
When seen as socially-positive, we get this Light Tetrad... the good side.
The 'bad'
This also directly related to the VJ Mad, Bad, Sad clusters [same as DSM IV personality disorder Clusters A, B, C] but now modified to the TEA format.
To see the 'progression' and pathways, the Temperament model is better. This format is better used to envisage the biases, the psychological Affect, Cognition, Conation perspectives, and somewhat to see spectrums of mindsets along various axes.
We'll start [next] with the dark side since it is well-represented elsewhere already. The Light Tetrad is not depicted by psychology so much though Transformational Leadership, metatrait Plasticity, NLP's Requisite Variety all 'fit' well here.
The Dark Tetrad
The details of the Triads making up the Tetrad is still under development as to the placement of the various disorders
Borderline PD
A mobile mentality that is close to psychotic breakdown.
The Light Tetrad
Remember that good and bad are usually from society's [your culture's] perspective, i.e. generally not from an individual's view. In evolutionary terms, the Dark and Light Tetrads have had survival value in order to even exist in such a persistent degree. ANY of the potential responses would have disappeared over evolutionary time if the function was not useful.
Yellow star
Compare this view with the VJ Yellow Star and with the BESS Synergy Star for better understanding
This Gervais Principle model is another view stimulated from 'The Office' by Rick Gervais & originally from the inspiring work of Venkatasan Rao [Ribbonfarm Consulting].
The graphics have some 'carousel' format [click right or left to see them]. I've not figured it out since I transformed to this new site format so you may have to download the image to read it. Joys of change!
***a work in progress & food for thought***