Sunday 8 April 2018

Transactional Analysis Theory - Formation, Sequence, Life Plan, Life Course, Life Pattern and Factors that make Script Possible

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Formation of Script
Eric Berne, writes on Script, in his book 'Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy' "the household drama which is first played out to an unsatisfactory conclusion in the earliest years of life, is called the 'Protocol'. This is classically an archaic version of the Oedipus drama and is repressed in later years. It's precipitates re-appear as the 'Script proper', which is a pre-conscious derivative of the protocol. In any social situation, however, this script proper must be compromised in accordance with possible realities. This compromise is technically called  'Adaptation', and these adaptations are what the patient actually tries to play out in real life by the manipulation of the people around him. In practice, protocol, script, and adaptations are all subsumed under the term 'Script'.'
The Script Sequence
The sequence suggested by Berne is:
1. Protocol: The original dramatic experience on which the script is based;
2. Decision: A childhood commitment to a certain form of behaviour;
3. Palimpsest: A later version of script arising from new potentialities encountered in later phases of development;
4. Payoff: Payoff the ultimate destiny or final display that marks the end of a life plan. The development of the script happens seamlessly.
Script, Life Plan, Life Course and Life Pattern
Berne says that life plan, and genes and parental background and external circumstances determine the life course. He adds that humans follow the patterns found in myths, legends, and fairy tales. These he says are most elegantly elaborated in Joseph Campbell's book 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'.
Seven Factors that make Script Possible
Berne lists the following seven factors that make script possible and encourage its continuation.
1. The Plastic Face: The unintended communication from a parent, usually the mother, by facial expressions that accompany what is said.
2. The Moving Self: The Sense of Self is always on the move. It is only rarely that one ego state knows what the person did or performed; or how the person behaved or responded when he was in another ego state.
3. Fascinations: Persons are unaware why they like or dislike some thing, behaviour, action or activity of another. They take fancy or avoid it altogether.
4. Odourless Smell: This replaces the term extra-sensory perception. Odourless smell concerns subtle chemical stimuli which affect a person, and to which the person responds emotionally and behaviourally but  of which he is not aware.
5. Reach-backs and After-burns: These are terms for time engagements all of us are occupied with in matters of goals, tasks, objectives and in reflecting what one said or did and the resulting affects. While reach-backs define the pre-occurrence occupation, after-burns define the post-occurrence 'occupations'. They are contributors to stress. They are of serious significance in matters of transactional rackets. They affect shifts of mind states, moods and behaviour generally or in the context of a particular person.
6. The Little Fascist: The little person residing in the deepest layer of personality who enjoys the cruel activity a person engages in, or thing a person does, or the difficulties a person causes, without being aware or without acknowledging the same.
7. The Brave Schizophrenic: This is an aspect in each one of us which accepts and accommodates an aspect or aspects in another or others which in reality are most unacceptable and damaging. We accept people along with their flaws and in the same way others accept us with all our flaws.


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