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Kick Me – Life Games
Transactional Analysis
Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114Mail – [email protected]
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Life Games
• All games have animportant and probablydecisive influence on thedestinies of the playersunder ordinary socialconditions.
• But some offer moreopportunities than othersfor life long careers andare more likely to involverelatively innocentbystanders.
• This group may beconveniently called LifeGames.
Kick Me
• This is played by men
whose social manner is
equivalent to wearing a
sign that reads “ Please
don’t kick me”.
Kick Me• The temptation is
almost irresistible andwhen the natural resultfollows, he criespiteously, “ But the signsays don’t kick me.”
• Then he addsincredulously “ Whydoes this alwayshappens to me?”
Kick Me• If the people around his
environment are restrainedfrom striking at him bykindheartedness, “ I am onlytrying to help you”, socialconvention or organizationalrule, his behavior becomesmore and more provocativeuntil he transgresses thelimits and forces them tooblige.
• These are men who are castout, the jilted and the joblosers.
Kick Me• The corresponding
game among women in“threadbare”.
• Often genteel, they takepains to be shabby.
• They see to it that theirearnings for goodreasons never rise muchabove the abstinencelevel.
Kick Me• If they have a windfall,
there are alwaysenterprising young menwho will help them getrid of it, giving them in areturn shares in aworthless businesspromotion orsomething equivalent.
• Colloquially, such awoman is called“Mother’s Friend”.
Kick Me• She is always ready to
give judicious Parentaladvice and livingvicariously on theexperience of others.
• Their WAHM is a silentone, and only theirdemeanor of bravestruggle suggests “Whydoes it always happento me?”.
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• An interesting form of
WAHM occurs in well
adapted people who
reap increasing rewards
and successes, often
beyond their own
expectations.
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• Here the WAHM may
lead to serious and
constructive thinking,
and to personal growth,
in the best scene, if it
takes the form “ what
did I really do to
deserve this?”
References
Thank You
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6. Stages of Cure - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stages-of-cure.
7. Transactions - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/transactions-33677298.
8. Time Structuring - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/time-structuring.
9. Life Position - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/life-position.
10. Autonomy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/autonomy-33690557.
11. Structural Pathology - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/structural-pathology.
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13. Integrated Adult - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/integrated-adult.
14. Stroke Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stroke-economy-33826702.