 Okay, this is a keynote presentation on personality adaptations by Bob Cook and it's looking at Paul Ware's model of personality adaptations and it's a diagnostic model for therapists to be able to diagnose which personality adaptation the client is coming from when they present for treatment, how to contact them and ways or ways of looking at the areas to be aware of in terms of blocks to communication. Okay, so let's look at the six adaptations and we'll go first to the adaptation called obsessive-compulsive. These are people that are quite black and white in their thinking. They usually are people who you know are very tied into shoulds, aughts, wants, musts. In other words, a lot of energy into high parent ego state. They have a psychological system where they go around with a high defining parent in their head. Their open door is thinking, target door is feeling and trap door is behaviour. So if the therapist is diagnosed that the person is coming from an obsessive-compulsive adaptation then they would be best served in terms of attunement to ask thinking questions. Rather than feeling questions or observing their behaviours. So they would appeal to their thinking first. The target door is where the person really wants to go to in terms of underlying processes and the trap door is which the therapist keeps away from because people obsessive-compulsives don't like behavioural change. Now of course in terms of where a person is going in terms of treatment planning the therapist is of course looking at the end for the person to integrate their feelings and their behaviours and their thinking. But the best way to contact somebody obsessive-compulsive so there's good attunement and rapport is through the open door which they like which of course is thinking. The second adaptation is paranoid adaptation. The open door in other words their attuned contact door is thinking. They're very good thinkers. Target door in other words what you're aiming for underneath the thinking which they quite like coming from which is feelings and of course the trap door which they want to at all costs keep away from which is behaviour. So if you want to tune well to them increase rapport ask them thinking questions. They're good thinkers they've had to do that to protect themselves in the past and to be able to predict the future and the present. So paranoid people pretty well people who are pretty suspicious they like predicting ahead but they are good thinkers and they like being addressed by thinking questions first. Okay the next adaptation would be schizoid. This is the withdrawn passive often daydreaming type of character. Schizoid means split so they're often split between their thinking feeling and behaviour and they're people who are highly dutiful so they'll come regularly for therapy they're highly adapted so they've got very strong pleas others drivers and the best way or the most attuned contact door their open door is behaviour then you're heading towards thinking and finally the door they don't want to go to but you need to integrate this with their thinking and their behaviours of course feelings so you keep feeling inquiring questions for last or certainly keep away from so it's behaviour thinking and feeling for this type of character okay passive aggressive okay so these are the people who communicate through passive aggressive processes often turned inwards though of course you know they're angry their open door is behaviour their target door is feeling and you keep away from thinking questions and these types of people like to struggle they get intimacy by struggling they want you to do their thinking for them and they need to integrate feeling and thinking okay so let's now go on to hysteronic somebody who's an hysteric of course their open door would be feeling so feeling inquiry or feeling questions this is the best way to increase rapport with this type of person their target door is thinking so they're quite like a therapist that will ask them thinking questions but they need to of course first been communicated through feeling questions and of course where they don't like to go is anything to do with behavioural change so in the end of the day of course they need to know they can think and feel at the same time and they're people who you increase rapport through feeling inquiry anti-social people i'm often called charming manipulators their open door is behaviour their target door is feeling and of course the trap door place where they don't want to go is thinking so you you meet this person through behavioural observations aimed at thinking questions oh sorry aimed at feeling questions to integrate their thinking often they're quite adapted in some ways i know one another nickname for them would be charming manipulators so they're people who often you will not see in psychotherapy if they do come to psychotherapy they often come because they've been sent or they need to come for issues perhaps which the courts have wanted them come to so you but you don't really see them in psychotherapy okie dokie so