Transactional Analysis Theory - Attributes of a Script-free Person

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Attributes of a Script-free Person

A script free person has the following attributes and qualities:

1. Autonomy: An autonomous person has capacity for awareness, spontaneity and intimacy. 

Awareness: One type of awareness concerns awareness about being in the here and now and about movement away from it. The aware person acts to restore it. The second type of awareness is about mind talk, fantasy thinking and psychological time engagements. An aware person is able to experience the world first hand like a child without names and attributes.

Responsibility: An autonomous person has esteem for responsibility. Every person is liable to make mistakes and errors of judgement. An autonomous person does not justify, protect or promote his line of thinking, reasoning or logic. He is open to hearing others and changing his line of thinking if need be. He makes a commitment to remedy flaws that result in making mistakes. He also assumes responsibility for his thinking, feelings, actions and behaviours. A responsible person is also committed to think, feel, act and behave in ways, which are safe. It means that they do not harm self, nor do they harm others. They make sane, safe, effective choices and work on options. 

Spontaneity: The person has capacity to choose from a whole range of feelings and responses. He implements those that are most appropriate to end the situations, solve the problems, overcome the difficulties, tide over the conditions,  cope with the challenges and interact with others in meaningful ways with a purpose.

Intimacy: Intimacy means the capacity for open, honest, candid expression of one's thoughts, feelings, opinions and ideas safely.

2. Script Free Living: Script free living is having capacity to be in control of one's life, have awareness for the surfacing of script directives if at all they surface.

3. Decision Making and Problem Solving: These are evident when a person is free of discounting.

4. Capacity for Adult Reality Testing: Reality testing is manifest when a person is largely free of pathology. The person is able to test subjective view of reality on the touchstone of objective reality.

5. Capacity to spend time in solitude and in the company of others with equal ease.

6. Attitude: The person is able to wait patiently for a better time when things are not favourable or going right. He is able to make haste when the time is opportune.

7. Free of Power Plays: The person upholds OK-ness in self as also in others during normal,  stressful and challenging times. 
8. Own good and general good: The person is conscious about his responsibilities toward himself, his family, his profession, his clan and his nation without overlooking his responsibilities toward others.
9. Upholds universal values: Two values are important. One is citizenship and the other is sustainability. He does work in ways which causes minimum ripples in the lives of others.
10. Freedom from Psychological Time Engagements, Thinking and Emotional lock-jams, Sense of Purpose: These attributes are self explanatory. He / she is also loving, considerate, inclusive in his approach to life and decisions.

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