almost script - transactional analysis
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Almost Script
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Almost ScriptSisyphus was another character to fall foul of the touchy Greek gods. He was condemned to spend eternity pushing a huge rock up a hill. Every time he almost got to the top, he lost his grip on the rock and it rolled all the way down to the bottom again. Like Sisyphus, the modern day person with an Almost script says: “ I almost made it this time.”
Almost ScriptFred borrows a book from
his friend. Giving it back, he
says: “Thanks for the book. I
have read it all except the
last chapter.” When Fred
cleans his car, he gets it
almost clean, except for a
few patches of mud which
he missed.
Almost ScriptLiving his Almost pattern over
the longer term, Fred has
almost been promoted at
work. But though he got near
the boss’s chair, he is not quite
made it in there. Each time he
gets to the short list, and each
time he somehow fails to
perform at the interview.
Almost Script
Berne called this script
pattern “Over and Over”.
However, later writers have
pointed out that all the
patterns are lived over and
over and so the title
“Almost” has been adopted
instead.
Almost Script
Taibi Kahler has suggested
that there are two types of
Almost pattern. He calls the
one we have discussed
“Almost type I”. In his
“Almost type II”, the person
actually does make it to the
top of the hill.
Almost ScriptBut instead of parking his rock and sitting down with a sigh of relief, this person hardly even notices he is got to the top. Without a pause, he looks around for an even higher hill to push the rock up, and off he goes. At the top of that one in turn, he looks around to spy a still higher mountain to tackle.
Almost ScriptThe person with Almost type II
will often be a material high
achiever, Janet, for instance,
sailed through her examinations
in school. She went straight on
to win a scholarship to college.
By the time she graduated with
a first class degree, she had
already decided to begin her
PhD studies.
Almost ScriptNow holding her doctorate, she his working hard for a Fellowship to her learned society. Though the envy of her colleagues, Janet herself does not feel she had made it. Once she is a fellow, she tells he friends, she got her eye on a professorship. Of course, it will mean still more hard work, and she never seem to have time to socialize.
Almost ScriptThere are two different
sentence patterns that signal
the Almost script. The speaker
may start a sentence, then go
off one tangent which he
finishes. “What I am lecturing
to you about today is – oh, by
the way, I have a page of notes
which I will give you.”
Almost ScriptAlternatively, the person with
an Almost script may come out
with a string of positives
followed by a single negative.
“Aren’t the trees lovely in
Autumn? It is really warm, too
and such bring sunshine. Mind
you, the air is cold.”
References
Thank You
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