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Here we discuss the development of each aspect of the personality structure: Parent, Adult, and Child. The corresponding characteristics of Parent, Adult and Child are the three P’s: power (critical/nurturing), possibility (rational/objective), and potency (psychological/natural). The functions of the three states of mind are reduced to three C’s: control, choice, and connection. We can understand and describe an example of a consciously symbiotic relational process: the mother and newborn infant. The function of the mother is the power to condition (control) the infant based on the provided frames of reference and in this case the literal environment. The mother makes rational determinations for the possibility (choice) of what the infant objectively needs and wants. The infant is suspended in the moment as she develops a psychological process through her connection with mother (potency).
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