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The Seven Relationship Model
7 Level Model

Level 1			     The Physiological:	-Concerns the Person as the Amoeba or Body;  Biological.

Level 2. The Emotional: Concerns the person as an a Mammal.

Level 3. The Nominative: Concerns the person as a primate.

Level 4. The Normative: Concerns the Person as a social being.

Level 5. The Rational: Concerns the person as a thinker.

Level 6. The Theoretical: Story Teller; -   Meaning Maker.

Level 7. The Transpersonal. Spiritual Beings. World Soul.

A brief description of each level follows below. '''THE SEVEN - LEVEL MODEL (Clarkson, 2003:210).  Level 1 - The Physiological:''' Relates to the person as an ‘amoeba’ or ‘body’ with biological, physical, visceral and sensational experience, temperament, body type and predispositions. This has to do with body processes, psychophysiology, natural sleep rhythms, food, physical symptoms of disease, the physical manifestation of anxiety and general sensory awareness, pro-perception, ‘first nature’. Physiological processes may be ‘measured’ in some instances such as brain wave patterns on EEG but it is probably impossible to ever know at a physiological level whether another person’s sensation of the color red is similar or different from one’s own.

Level 2 - The Emotional: Relates to the person as ‘mammal’. It is fundamentally a pre-verbal area of experience and activity. It involves those psycho-physiological states or electro-chemical muscular changes in our bodies we talk about as feeling, affect and/or emotion in psychology. Emotions are for all intents and purposes subjective, experimental and felt states. Our knowledge concerning emotions seems to be essentially existential, phenomenological and unique.  Level 3 - The Nominative: Relates to the person as ‘primate’. Under this caption are included the awareness and labelling of occurrences and the validation of experience through naming. This epitomizes the verbal part of communication. Since at least the earliest biblical times, people have known that the ‘giving of names’ develops ‘dominion’, ownership and the feeling of mastery over the existential world and the transformation of human experience. There can be some agreement or disparity within groups, with dialect or language or disciplinary groups, for example, about ‘what things are called’. Within any common set of language rules the fact that certain kinds of word are known to stand for certain kinds of objects can be established, contested or disputed.  Level 4 - The Normative: Relates to the person as social animal. It is relevant to norms, values, collective belief systems and societal expectations. This level attends to relationships, knowledge of attributes and practices regarding people as ‘cultural beings’- the tribe, the group, the community, the church, the political party, and the organizations. Values, morals, ethics are not always subject to logical tests of truth or statistical rationality it is a different realm of questioning or knowing.  Level 5 - The Rational: Relates to ‘Homo sapiens’ – the person as thinker. This stratum of knowledge and activity includes thinking, making sense of things, examination of cause and effect, frames of reference, working with facts and information of the time and place. It covers science, logic, statistical probabilities, provable facts, established ‘truth’ statements and consensually observable phenomena. It is a characteristic of level 5 dissertation that it is possible to establish truth values.  Level 6 - The Theoretical: The person as a ‘story-teller’ – as a meaning-maker, making sense of human experience through symbolism, story and metaphor. This is rooted in the notion of theoretical plurality and reality. Theories can be seen as ‘narratives’- stories that people tell themselves- interesting, exciting, depressing controlling, useful and relative, but no one forever true. ‘Theories’ are in a different logical category from that of the facts. Both in psychological theory and individual experience, it is important to separate these where possible. These are the hypotheses, explanations, metaphors and stories that humans have created in order to explain or test why things are as they are and why people behave as they do. Theories e.g. can be more or less elegant, economical, valid, reliable explanatory or practical. If a theory becomes fact, it enters into the non-disputable level 5 area.  Level 7 - The Transpersonal: This relates to the epistemological area or universe of discourse concerned with people as e.g. ‘spiritual beings’ or with the world soul. Beyond rationality, facts, and even theories are president regions of dreams, ‘direct knowing’, altered states of ecstatic consciousness, the spiritual, the meta-physical, the ‘quantum chaos’, the mystical, the essentially paradoxical, the unpredictable and the inexplicable.’

References:

Clarkson, P. (1992b). The seven level model. In W. Dryden (Ed.) Integrative and Eclectic Therapy: A Handbook, pp.41-83. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Clarkson, P. (1992c). Transactional analysis psychotherapy – An integrated approach, pp.79 London: Routledge

Clarkson, P. (2002b). On Psychotherapy2: Including the 7-Level Model. London: Whurr.

Clarkson, P. (2003). The Therapeutic Relationship. London: Whurr