Type 4 Health Levels

[Roshan]

Consolidation
The Health Levels
with focus on Type 4


Healthy

Level 1: The Level of Liberation
Inspired Creator
(At Their Best): Profoundly creative, expressing the personal and the universal, possibly in a work of art. Inspired, self-renewing and regenerating: able to transform all their experiences into something valuable: self-creative

Level 2: The Level of Psychological Capacity
Self-Aware Intuitive
Self-aware, introspective, on the "search for self," aware of feelings and inner impulses. Sensitive and intuitive both to self and others: gentle, tactful, compassionate.

Level 3: The Level of Social Value
Self-Revealing Individual
Highly personal, individualistic, "true to self." Self-revealing, emotionally honest, humane. Ironic view of self and life: can be serious and funny, vulnerable and emotionally strong.

Average

Level 4: The Level of Imbalance/Social Role
Imaginative Aesthete
Take an artistic, romantic orientation to life, creating a beautiful, aesthetic environment to cultivate and prolong personal feelings. Heighten reality through fantasy, passionate feelings, and the imagination.

Level 5: The Level of Interpersonal Control
Self-Absorbed Romantic
To stay in touch with feelings, they interiorize everything, taking everything personally, but become self-absorbed and introverted, moody and hypersensitive, shy and self-conscious, unable to be spontaneous or to "get out of themselves." Stay withdrawn to protect their self-image and to buy time to sort out feelings.

Level 6: The Level of Overcompensation
Self-Indulgent Exception
Gradually think that they are different from others, and feel that they are exempt from living as everyone else does. They become melancholy dreamers, disdainful, decadent, and sensual, living in a fantasy world. Self-pity and envy of others leads to self-indulgence, and to becoming increasingly impractical, unproductive, effete, and precious.


Unhealthy

Level 7: The Level of Violation
Alienated Depressive
When dreams fail, become self-inhibiting and angry at self, depressed and alienated from self and others, blocked and emotionally paralyzed. Ashamed of self, fatigued and unable to function.

Level 8: The Level of Obsession and Compulsion
Emotionally Tormented Person
Tormented by delusional self-contempt, self-reproaches, self-hatred, and morbid thoughts: everything is a source of torment. Blaming others, they drive away anyone who tries to help them.

Level 9: The Level of Pathological Destruction
Self-Destructive Person
Despairing, feel hopeless and become self-destructive, possibly abusing alcohol or drugs to escape. In the extreme: emotional breakdown or suicide is likely. Generally corresponds to the Avoidant, Depressive, and Narcissistic personality disorders.

[Anthony]

Fears and desires at each health level:

Healthy

Level 1: The Level of Liberation
The Inspired Creator
Desire: (Self-Actualization) To let go of their identification with a particular self-image, that they are more inherently flawed than others—that they are missing something that others have
Fear: (Basic Fear) That they have no identity or personal significance

Level 2: The Level of Psychological Capacity
The Self-Aware Intuitive
Desire: (Basic Desire) To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity out of their inner experience
Fear: (First of Secondary Fears) Of losing touch with their inner states, their sense of self

Level 3: The Level of Social Value
The Self-Revealing Individual
Desire: (First of Secondary Desires) To express their individuality to themselves and others (through creative action)
Fear: That their changing feelings won't sustain them and their creativity

Average

Level 4: The Level of Imbalance/Social Role
The Imaginative Aesthete
Desire: To cultivate and prolong selected feelings (Fantasy Self)
Fear: That others will not appreciate the significance of their identity and feelings

Level 5: The Level of Interpersonal Control
Self-Absorbed Romantic
Desire: To be reassured of others' interest and concern for them (playing "hard to get")
Fear: That life's demands will force them to give up their Fantasy Self (others will not rescue them)

Level 6: The Level of Overcompensation
The Self-Indulgent Exception
Desire: To be absolutely free to "be themselves"
Fear: That they are ruining their lives, wasting their opportunities

Unhealthy

Level 7: The Level of Violation
The Alienated Depressive
Desire: To reject everyone or anything that does not support their emotional demands
Fear: That they are cut off from others and from life (abandoned)

Level 8: The Level of Obsession and Compulsion
The Emotionally Tormented Person
Desire: To punish themselves (and, indirectly, others)
Fear: That their situation is hopeless—everything is futile

Level 9: The Level of Pathological Destruction
Self-Destructive Person
Desire: To escape their crushingly negative self-consciousness
Fear: Basic Fear is realized: they have lost their identity and personal significance


From the appendix of Riso and Hudson's Personality Types.