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The Eighteen Convergent Patterns

6. Calibrated vulnerability — self-naming proportional to the container

Vulnerability scales to the relational container. He assesses what kind of self-naming a given container can hold, and offers that much: the depth is a property of the relationship rather than a constant setting he runs everywhere.

The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.

Read through the lenses

Psychological / attachment-and-self

Attachment-theory differentiation between secure-disclosure and anxious-overshare.

Bowlby Ainsworth Winnicott Kohut Main

Ethical

Care ethics’ relational depth-calibration.

Levinas Care-ethics Hyde Murdoch

Cultural-anthropological

Turner’s liminal-trust requiring proportional containing.

Turner

Turner Geertz Mauss Hall

Pedagogical-developmental

Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development applied to relational disclosure.

Vygotsky

Vygotsky Freire Schön Kolb Dweck