Direct - Direct recapitulation is directly recreating the dynamics of an earlier shock or trauma. A woman with a strong and overbearing father, who chooses a strong and overbearing husband, is directly recapitulating that experience. She's chosen to try to gain mastery over her painful early experiences by repeating and dealing with the same patterns over and over again.
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Avoidant - An avoidant recapitulator creates events that are directly opposite the dynamics of the earlier experience. So, a boy whose parents were obsessive about safety and cleanliness might purposely become involved in activities which allowed him to take risks and get dirty (rock climbing or rugby would combine both elements) - which would allow him to totally avoid the dynamics of his childhood. Unfortunately, avoidant recapitulators tend to transform a lot of their unresolved traumas into physical problems.
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Identified - In identified recapitulation, the person creates a situation where he/she can take on the role of the traumatizing person. So, a child who grew up with parents who were critical and demanding might become critical and demanding of others.
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Generative - Generative recapitulation involves taking an "educational" or "social activist" approach - to help others avoid the trauma you know so well. So, the person whose parents didn’t observe appropriate boundaries might teach assertiveness classes for teenage girls or women, or create parenting class with special emphasis on respecting boundaries.
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Creative - A person who uses creative repatterning recapitulation will develop ways to "master" the hurtful forces of childhood. For example, a boy whose dad would play with him very roughly and throw him through the air might become a stuntman or pilot - developing the traumatizing experience into a sophisticated skill over which he had control, and which could bring great satisfaction (either through money, or pleasurable experiences, or both).
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Confrontive - Confrontive recapitulators seek out and challenge circumstances, people, events that are identical or similar to those of their childhood; this is similar to identified but without "victimizing" people. A person who was neglected as a child might become hypervigilant to notice and overly aggressive about confronting parents who are in any way neglectful of their children. 
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One additional style that I've identified is called Adoptive or Preemptive. People who use this style of recapitulation will "beat the other person to it" by voluntarily adopting the behaviour that was forced on them. So people whose births were induced and who felt forced to be early, will always be early. This prevents outside circumstances from every "inducing" them again. Or people whose parents were abusive, forcing them to be compliant and meek, will adopt a meek and compliant manner all the time, to "head off" the need of others to be abusive towards them. People who were deprived will need even less, not letting other deprive them because they "don't need it anyway."