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The biospheric model of personality is a contribution to the psychology of personality proposed by Andras Angyal in 1941. According to this model, the biosphere is the system of the individual and her environment, consisting of Subject subsystem (the individual) and Object subsystem (the environment).[1]
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The following outlines the author's holistic view of the biosphere:
Elements: attitude, drive, craving;
Organized into: axioms of behavior, systems of axioms, the personal system principle.
Elements: relevance, valence, demand quality;
Organized into: axiomatic values, systems of values, the environment's system.
Angyal describes three personality dimensions:
Biosphere dynamics is generated by the tension between the poles of each dimension. There are two fundamental tendencies of the person in relationship with her environment:
According to Angyal's model, psychopathology is caused by the segregation of the two poles of one or more personality dimensions. This segregation can be: