Psycho-Trends™

Each individual is dependent on three orders of determinations:

I . - Firstly, as living beings, we are what biology calls open systems, that is entities which interact with their environment and maintain a dynamic equilibrium. We are thus destined, by nature, to act, and this is the case for every man and woman.
If we examine what a complex open system needs to do in order to survive, we notice that it must imperatively carry out four types of operations:

1) explore its environment and capture input;
2)  transform this input and integrate it into its own structure;
3) regulate and defend itself against aggressions;
4) renew its component parts.

In the psychic life, these four types of operations find their most complete expression in the behavior dynamics, which constitute the first sector of the psychic life explored by Psycho-Trends™

II. - Secondly, we are composed of different forms, morphologies, with which the individual identifies at a very early stage.  Our surfaces, cavities, canals, etc. and their implications at the psycho-bodily level, are at the root of many of our attitudes and ways of doing which seem natural to us because of this early identification.

There exists therefore a whole group of underlying morphodynamics which influence our ways of feeling and behaving.These morphodynamics (they lay on identification with morphological forms such as surface, fiber, cavity, canal, or mass) constitute the second sector of the psychic life explored by Psycho-Trends™

III - A third, and obviously equally fundamental, sector explored by Psycho-Trends™, is that of affective determinations, a particularly complex domain.  The  emotional dynamics are, in fact, largely determined by different forms of anxiety, experienced and developed differentially by every child and which, in adult life, continue, unconsciously, to exercise their influence on that person's way of behaving (mainly: agression, frustration, incertitude, conflict).

  Each and every one of us, including the individual who appears the least anxious, is affected by certain sensitizations to anxiogenic situations experienced as a child; this is because the childhood experience is dominated by the emotional/affective dynamic which primes over the ideational and motor capacities at this stage.

Each of the dynamics explored in these three main sectors of the psychic life contains elements that may act as a driving force and others that may act as a bridle in the individual experience.

It must be noted that the aim of Psycho-Trends™, as a tool of exploration, is to characterize modes of behavior and reactions proper to personalities considered as normal and is in no way intended to reveal pathologies or psychological disorders.

The type of interactivity that can be instituted between two interlocutors or partners can thus be considered through these different facets.

In practice, the aim of the test is not only to evaluate attitudes and behaviors, but also to lead its user to consider (or reconsider) his relationship to others and to the outside world by providing him with a tool of exploration that will also enable him to discover hidden dimensions of the personality.

The test is comprised of 200 closed questions (the number varies according to the answers given).
The average duration of the test is 40 minutes

© H. Bianchi & Cybel 2001