ABSTRACT
The theory of Archetypal Place perhaps should be called the theory of whole environments. It is an attempt to identify the meaningful parts of the human environment. When this environment does not provide all settings necessary for the total human behavior spectrum, individual functioning and the quality of society may be impaired. Such a population exists in a state of setting deprivation. Thirteen settings, an irreducible group, are designated as archetypal places. Each is associated with a significant whole behavior, which is in turn keyed to developmental time or period in the life cycle, with a need or drive, and with the drive’s object. The combination of the drive, object, the time, and archetypal place, forms the critical confluence. Setting deprivation results when behaviors at the critical confluence are blocked--because environments are archetypally inadequate.
