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TRANSACTIONALANALYSIS

A BRIEF OVERVIEW


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EACH OF US IS REALLYTHREE PEOPLE!!!!


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THREE MODES OF

BEHAVIOR

Parent

Adult

Child

These are called EGO STATES

They are Felt states of being and notjust roles.


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Child Ego State

Natural Child(PRINCE)- Hateful/ loving/

spontaneous/ playful Intuitive Child(LITTLE PROFESSOR)-

Thoughtful/ imaginative/ creative

Adapted Child(FROG)- fearful/ guilty/ashamed


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Parent Ego State

A collection of pre-recorded, pre-judged,

prejudiced codes for living. Decides, without reasoning, how to react

to situations.

Can be over-controlling and oppressiveor life giving, supportive and tender.


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Overly Critical- Critical parent

Loving and nurturing the child- Nurturingparent


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Adult Ego State

Has no emotionsable to detach from

feelings. Logical.


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Contamination

When the Adult uses information which

has its source in the Child or in theParent and which may be incorrect.

Prejudice.


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Voices in the head!!

Parental Tapes being played over in our

minds. They may be good or bad depending on

which parents tapes we are playing.


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Critical parent is opposed to natural child.

Nurturing parent is supportive to natural

child.

Critical parent activates the Adapted

Child.

It is possible to fight your Critical

Parent(also called Pig Parent).


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RELATIONSHIPS

Child to Child

Parent to parent

Child to Adult

Adult to Parent

Adult to Adult


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STROKES

The recognition that one person gives to

another Essential to a person's life

Can vary from actual physical touch to

praise


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MOST OF US SUFFER FROMSTROKE HUNGER!!!!!!


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Positive Strokes- I love you, you did agood job- Warm Fuzzies

Negative Strokes- I hate you- cold

Pricklies.

When positive strokes are not given, we

look for negative strokes rather than be

without strokes at all!!


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We should learn to open our hearts and

ask for strokes. It makes life easier.


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There are five ways peoplecan structure their time to get

strokes:


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RITUALS, PASTIMES,GAMES, INTIMACY, WORK


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RITUAL

A pre-set exchange of recognitionstrokes.

"Hi!"How are you?""Fine, thanks."

"Well, see you around. Bye!"

This is a four-stroke ritual.


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PASTIME

A pre-set conversation around a certain

subject.

Pastimes are most evident at cocktail

parties and family get-together.


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Games

Repetitive, devious series of transactions

intended to get strokes.

Unfortunately, the strokes obtained in

games are mostly negative.

A game is a failed method of gettingstrokes.


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Intimacy

A direct and powerful exchange of

strokes which people crave but seldom

attain

The Child is frightened away from it by

hurtful experiences.


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Work

An activity which has a product as its

result.

Good work results in the exchange of

strokes as a side effect.


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TRANSACTIONS

Transactions occur when any person

relates to any other person.

The three types of transactions:COMPLEMENTARY,CROSSED &

COVERT.

Every transaction is made up of astimulus and response.


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Complementary Transaction

between Adult and Adult

Parent to Child

Parent to Parent


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Communication can continue between

ego states as long as trans-actions are

parallel.

Whenever a disruption of communication

occurs, a crossed transaction caused it.


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Cross Transaction

When three or more ego states are

involved

The transactional response is addressed

to an ego state different from the one

which started the stimulus They disrupt communication.


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Discount Transaction

One very important kind of crossedtransaction

Here one person completely disregardswhat the other one issaying.

Discounts are not always obvious but arealways unpleasant


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Covert Transactions

A covert transaction is when people say

one thing and mean another.

Are the basis of games and areespecially interesting because they are

crooked.

They have a social (overt) and a

psychological (covert) level.


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WHY DONT YOU, YES BUT(YDYB,) RAPO, AND THEIRPAYOFFS.


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PAYOFFS OF GAMES

The biological pay-off is strokes

The social pay-off of a game is time-structuring.

The existential pay-off of a game is the

way in which the game confirms theexistential position of each player.


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RACKETS & STAMPS

People collect psychological trading

stamps to be traded

in for a divorce, a suicide, a drug binge or

a blow-up.


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ROLES & DEGREES

The three basic game roles are

Persecutor, Rescuer, and Victim

Games can be played soft or hard


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TURNING PEOPLE INTO

FROGS

People are born princes and princesses

Their parents turn them into frogs.

Parents script their children


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IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISCARD

YOUR SCRIPT AND WRITE ANEW ONEAUTONOMOUSLY!!!!


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SCRIPT CHECKLIST

Life course. What short sentence best

describes the person's life?

Counterscript. This is a period of life

dominated by the Parent. What does the

person do when he seems to beescaping the life-course?


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The Tragic Ending

Extremist, self-destructive scripts.

Banal scripts.


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The Therapist's Role.

A good therapist is aware of roles and

how to avoid them.


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GOOD AND BAD GAMES and

SCRIPTS

Even though games are crooked they

can sometimes be useful.

Certain scripts may have socially

redeeming features


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THREE Ps; PERMISSION,

PROTECTION,POTENCY

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