Monday, 9 April 2018

Transactional Analysis Theory and Practice: Other types of Rackets

This blog comes from Ajit Karve, BSc, BTA, a Transformational TA Coach
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Other types of Rackets

We act and do things. We speak and express ourselves. We respond to what others say and do. There are many ways of doing, expressing, and responding. The variety is limitless. At one end is being aware, sane, safe and effective. At the other end is being unaware or unmindful of consequences; being inattentive, careless, reckless, risking, counter-phobic, aggressive or mischievous; being manipulating; being sacrificing or complying; needlessly seeking help, assistance or expressing helplessness; being one up or one down to another; being rescuing or persecuting; being blaming, alleging, finger-pointing or accusing; being inexpressive with a poker face; being justifying, protecting or professing; being scandalous, cheating, exploiting, dishonest or inauthentic; being nice, perfect, strong, trying hard or hurrying up; being unable to use permissions and allowers; being affected by doing nothing, over-adapting, agitation or incapacitation; and many other similar. 

They qualify to be rackets when they are inauthentic, repetitive, maladaptive and not contributing to end a situation or to solve a problem. They qualify to be rackets when they have a manipulative quality, are attention seeking, and generate grandiosity. 

They also qualify to be rackets in the self-use mode. In doing so they become psychological time engagements. Psychological time is a third type of time. The other two being set time or clock time and event time or goal time. Clock time is in operation when activity is ruled by clock or calendar. A good example is a game of football. Goal time is in operation when activity rules the time. A good example is a game of baseball. Psychological time is in operation when the mind is not where the body is or where some activity is in progress. Psychological time engagement also happens when a person is locked in an overlap patch of past and future. The person loses touch with the present moment. The person's mind is not where the body is. In other contexts psychological time is generated by sets of reach backs and after burns. Reach back is a period of time during which an impending event influences a person's behaviour. After burn is a period of time after an event which a person spends reflecting how well he did at a job or how well an event turned out. In events that are stressful the influence is likely to cause psychosomatic ailments. Psychological time engagement happens when the person concerns him/herself with people, events and interactions that have happened or with people, events and interactions that are yet to happen. In the process the person loses contact with the awareness of here-now. It can be resolved by asking these questions: Where am I? I am in the room. What am I doing? I am writing this blog. Where is my mind? Here or thinking about what my wife may cook for the evening. If it is here fine. If thinking about the meal for the evening it is engaged in psychological time lock-up.

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