Transactional Analysis Theory - Personality, Ego States and Parental Programming

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Personality, Ego States and Parental Programming

The making of our personality is based on its contents. Most of them except for Adult are installed based on parental programming.

The Structural Parent is an introject. It contains material that has been taken in whole without evaluation. Our values, beliefs, evaluatory views, prejudices, rituals, expectations from others and responses to people and situations are some of them. The contributors are our own parents and significant parent figures of our childhood and teenage years.

The Functional Parent works in our favour if it is permissive, encouraging, non-judgemental, hope and efficacy promoting and non-rescuing. Else it is punitive, prejudicial, persecuting, rescuing or victim role playing.

The Adult's robustness defines its efficacy and effectiveness. Free of contamination it functions well in data sourcing, evaluation, sieving and their storage. It serves to store adulthood data and experiences for future use. It helps in reality testing. It helps in problem solving, decision making and for making logical, well thought evaluations of reality situations.

The Structural Child is healthy if caretakers have been free of anxiety attacks in its handling in early childhood. Freedom from injunctions is also a boon to one who possesses this endowment. Permissiveness enjoyed by a well developed Child is an asset to any person. A healthy Adapted Child and a healthy Free Child bestow upon a person motivation, energy, hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism. A healthy Child contributes to capacities for creativity, innovativeness, out of the box thinking, and intuition among others. The person then is able to manage wants, needs and desires in a sane fashion. They are  generated by contents of a healthy third order Child.

A healthy personality structure promotes the capacity to wait, delay and postpone urges, drives and impulses. This capacity helps to build a robust Adult over time. It also helps to overcome the promptings of the demon that are largely detrimental to the interests of an individual.    

A Healthy Free Child is an effective manager of energy resources in a person. It is largely responsible for affording a person to be free of script control. A healthy Free Child offers acquiescence to the Adult. This makes the Adult responsible and effective in its operations. 

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