ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two computer models of personality. The Neurotic Program derives from the paradigm of psychoanalysis and was designed to simulate the analysand in psychoanalytic therapy. The Neurotic Program was designed as a theoretical model of a neurotic woman who had been in psychoanalytic therapy for a series of several hundred interview hours over a period of three years. In the Neurotic Program, beliefs are organized into complexes. A belief is randomly chosen from a complex and is designated as the regnant belief. The limitations of the Neurotic Program derive from several sources. CLIENT 1 simulates the behavior of a client in an initial counseling interview. CLIENT 1's data structure for the topic of career difficulties contains a graded series of statements that are numerically calibrated from low degrees of threat for general statements to high degrees of threat for specific, direct and fully disclosed accounts of its problem.
