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The Script System
The script system was formerly called the racket system. It is a diagram that shows how the homeostasis of script is maintained. The script system is diagrammed in figure 61.
Components of the Script System:There are two operational components that comprise the script system namely: the script and the reinforcing memories. The movement to script is manifested by rackety displays. The script in turn is comprised of the script beliefs and the script feelings. The rackety displays manifest as observable behaviours, bodily sensations and fantasies. They are now explained:
Figure 61
Script: Script comprises of sets of distorted perceptions of reality and script promoting thinking and feeling patterns. The affected person believes that they are correct and appropriate. The person also protects, justifies and professes them. Script may be likened to a one way street ending in a cul de sac. The person moves into being script bound and stays there for some time. The person loses capacity for Adult conscious awareness and intimacy.
Script is comprised of script beliefs and script feelings.
Script Beliefs: These are beliefs about oneself (self), others, and the quality of life one is entitled to live and enjoy. Script beliefs are in turn comprised of core beliefs and supporting beliefs. Core beliefs and supporting beliefs together form belief clusters. Core beliefs correspond to the child's earliest and most fundamental script decisions. Supporting beliefs are based on justifying and giving meaning attached to the core beliefs, related experiences and interpretations.
The statements for core beliefs and supporting beliefs could be:
Figure 62
Script Feelings: These are feelings repressed at the moment of script decision.
Intra-psychic Process: The script beliefs and script feelings reinforce each other and they together constitute the intra-psychic reinforcing mechanism.
Reinforcing Memories: They are emotional memories of past negative experiences that are used to reinforce script. For example: A person having a belief that "I am treated unfairly", "therefore I have to fight and oppose", pays attention to parts of reality where people and events become relevant. He may be internally pushed to go to the rescue of another person facing victimization or unfair treatment. Becoming aggressive, expressing anger and being insensitive become his second nature. They provide evidence and justification.
Reinforcing memories and script form a subtly connected reinforcing system. It being active is manifested by escalation of somatic ailments - asthma, rheumatism, headaches, colds among many others.
Rackety Displays: They are comprised of observable behaviours, bodily sensations and fantasies that get switched on, soon after or alongside script activation.
Observable Behaviours: Observable behaviours are stylized, repetitive scripty behaviours. Contorted facial expressions, statements of threat and giving back, throwing anger tantrums, using bad language and foul or curse words, aggressiveness, fist showing, backing away, walking away, suddenly becoming pleasing, throwing furniture, inflicting material and bodily hurt to self or others are examples of observable behaviours.
Bodily sensations and experiences: Bodily sensations are the somatic components of script. They are associated with feelings. One might express anger. It may be accompanied by fear resulting in a racing heart, palpitation, sweating and the like. Head, throat, gut, tummy, back, legs and head are the vulnerable areas. Tremors, shivering, feeling a lump, getting a cramp, a headache are examples of bodily sensations.
Fantasies: They are like day dreaming and imaginative thinking. In doing so, person thinks about harming self and harming other persons.
Rackety displays form an integral part of the script reinforcement system. Rackety displays provide an observation window to know that script activation has occurred. Other dysfunctional behaviours such as passive behaviours, thinking disorders, redefining transactions, roles on drama triangle, Parent and Child competitive symbiosis, driver behaviours, stroke economy, ego state pathology, gallows laughter, process script activation, protecting, justifying, professing one's view and other such manifestations can also be counted as being rackety displays.
Picture of Script Limiting System
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