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IMPART Workshop 5

TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS
          AND
  REDECISION THERAPY
Eric Berne
With Claude Steiner, Eric Bernes associate
Practice & Philosophy of TA

 People are OK.
 Everyone has the capacity to think.
 People decide their own destiny, and
  these decisions can be changed.
CRITICAL: COMMANDS, ORDERS
    (DATA OF UNVERIFIED AUTHENTICITY)




E   NURTURING: CARING, LOVING



G
O   PROCESSING DETAILS,
    RATIONAL THINKING
    CAUSE & EFFECT RELATIONSHIP
G   REALITY


R
A
    ADAPTED: BORROWED EMOTIONS
M
    NATURAL: CURIOSITY, SPONTANEOUS
    EMOTIONS, CREATIVITY, FUN, JOY,
    SEXUAL EMOTION, INTUITION
S=Stimulus
                               R=Response

 Complimentary             P
                                   S
                                            P
                                   R
   Transaction
                           A                A
The transactional
vectors are parallel and
                           C                C
the ego state
addressed is the one
which responds. It can     P                P
be from any ego state
to any other ego state.
                           A                A

                           C                C
Crossed Transaction

The transactional vectors
are not parallel or the ego   P   P
state addressed is not the
one which responds. In a      A   A
crossed transaction the
response comes from an        C   C
unexpected ego state.
Ulterior Transaction
                 (Angular)

                           P       P
A transaction is overtly
directed at one (social)
level, but covertly at     A       A
another (psychological)
level.
                           C       C
Ulterior Transaction
                   (Duplex)

Both the persons         P          P
involve in a more
important secret
(psychological)          A          A
transaction underlying
the overt (social)
transaction.             C          C
How do we remember?

Memory = Event + Emotion
 Recall = Emotion + Event
Strokes

 Positive, Negative & discounting
 Conditional & Unconditional
 Verbal, Non-verbal, action
Claude Steiners
  Stroke Economy
DONT GIVE +VE STROKES

GIVE VE STROKES

DONT ACCEPT +VE STROKES

ACCEPT VE STROKES

DONT SELF-STROKE
Stroke Economy
DONT GIVE +VE STROKES

DONT GIVE VE STROKES

DONT ACCEPT +VE STROKES

DONT ACCEPT VE STROKES

DONT SELF-STROKE
Common Script Beliefs
     COMMANDS                       BELIEFS
   You mustnt exist.            I mustnt exist.
   You mustnt be you.           I mustnt be me.
   You mustnt be a child.       I mustnt be a child.
   You mustnt grow up.          I mustnt grow up.
   You mustnt make it.          I mustnt make it.
   You mustnt do anything.      I mustnt do anything.
   You mustnt be important.     I mustnt be important.
   You mustnt belong.           I mustnt belong.
   You mustnt be close.         I mustnt be close.
   You mustnt be well (sane).   I mustnt be well (sane).
   You mustnt think.            I mustnt think.
   You mustnt feel.             I mustnt feel.
Life Script
 Each person decides upon a plan for his/her
  life beginning in earliest childhood.
 It is constructed in the form of drama with a
  clear-cut beginning, middle, & end.
 Script payoff: Closing scene of the script
Life course depends on

     Heredity
     External events
     Life-script
     Autonomous decisions
Early Decisions

   Injunctions
   Commands
    Attributes
    Modelling
What decides our behaviour?
        Early experiences

       Decisions & Scripts

     Psychological positions

   Script-reinforcing behaviours
Life Positions

   Im not OK, Youre OK.
   Im not OK, Youre not OK.
   Im OK, Youre not OK.
   Im OK, Youre OK.
YOU ARE OKAY WITH ME



                              I AM NOT OK                    I AM OK
                               YOU ARE OK                    YOU ARE OK
I AM NOT OKAY WITH ME




                          One down position               Healthy position




                                                                               I AM OKAY WITH ME
                        Get away from, helpless           Get on with, happy



                         I AM NOT OK                       I AM OK
                         YOU ARE NOT OK                    YOU ARE NOT OK

                         Helpless position                One up position

                        Get nowhere with, hopeless        Get rid of, Angry

                                       YOU ARE NOT OKAY WITH ME
Tragic Script Outcomes

 Killing or Harming self

 Killing or Harming others

 Going crazy
Racket and Racket Feelings
RACKET FEELING: A familiar emotion, acquired in
  childhood, and expressed later under stress. It is a
  substitute for another feeling prohibited in family of
  origin.
RACKET: A set of manipulative thoughts & behaviours
  intended outside awareness to justify in experiencing
  a racket feeling.
Each time a person gets strokes for a racket or racket
  feeling, she will interpret this in Child as confirmation
  of her script beliefs.
Questions to elicit racket feelings
 How do you express when you fail in exams?

 What do you tell to your Boss/Wife when you arrive
late?
 What kinds of topics do you like most?
 What aspects do you expect from your favorite film
star?
 While talking for long time with your friend in mobile,
What excuse do you give to your mother?
A Racket System
                            RACKET SYSTEM



SCRIPT BELIEFS            RACKETY DISPLAYS          REINFORCING MEMORIES
Beliefs about:            1 Observable behaviours       Emotional memories
1 Self                    (stylized, repetitive)        (trading stamps)
2 Others                                                provide evidence &
                          2 Reported internal
3 Quality of life                                       justification
                          experience (somatic
(Intrapsychic process)
                          ailments: physical
Feelings repressed at     sensations)
the time of script        3 Fantasies
decision
Time Structuring
Withdrawal: Being to oneself
Procedures: Give & take
Rituals: Wishing each other
Pastimes: Mine is better than yours
Activities: Action and satisfaction
Games: Transaction with a switch > negative strokes
Intimacy: Opening with others without walls > positive
strokes
Arena of the Games:
     Karpmans Triangle

Persecutor            Rescuer




             Victim
Applying TA Therapy
   Help client close escape hatches.
   Develop therapeutic contract.
   Describe specific tenets & terminology of TA.
   Create awareness of scripts.
   Reinforce redecisions.
   Enforce cognitive/rational domain of behaviou.r
   Challenge to change current pattern.s
   Enhance client autonomy to reduce dependence.
Closing Escape Hatches
You need to promise yourself that
- You will never, in any circumstances, kill or harm
  yourself, try to kill or harm yourself, or set up to kill
  or harm yourself, accidentally or on purpose.
- You will never, in circumstances, kill or harm anyone
  else, try to kill or harm anyone else, or set up to kill
  or harm anyone else, accidentally or on purpose.
- You will never, in any circumstances, go crazy, try to
  go crazy or set up to go crazy, accidentally or on
  purpose.
Therapeutic Contract: Why?
1. To have the client actively involved in the
   counselling process
2. To provide a mental set towards change
3. To know when the work is complete
4. To guard against imposition of the therapists
   goals on the client.
5. To discourage pursuit of covert agendas
Effective Contract-making
1.   Is the contract goal feasible?
2.   Is it safe?
3.   Is it stated in positive words?
4.   Is it observable?
5.   Is it placed in a clear context?
6.   Does this mark a movement out of script and
     into the autonomy for the client?
Tasks of Therapist

Confront Script  Invite Autonomy

         INTERVENTION
         - Effective
         - Harmful
         - Ineffective
Techniques of TA
 Active listening skills
 Finding the script
 Confrontation for redecision process
 Role-play
 Contracts to achieve target
 Enhance redecision process: get commitment
  to change
 Self-scripting
ELICITATION WINDOW




                     Dr VINOD CHEBBI, Bangalore
Discovering Racket & Racket Feelings

 When things go wrong for you, how do you feel?
 Do you recognize this as a familiar feeling of yours?
 Is it a feeling you experience in response to a wide range of
  different situations?
 When did you last feel these feelings?
 What was the situation in which you felt it?
 With hindsight, how far would you say you had a part in
  setting up that situation, though you are not responsible?
Discovering Racket & Racket Feelings (Contd.)


 Did the feeling you felt help you to get your needs met in
  the here-and-now?
 When you were a child, was this feeling favoured or
  rewarded in your family?
 Suppose you were using this favoured feeling to cover up
  another feeling that was prohibited or punished when you
  were a child, what would you guess is this original feeling
  you were covering up?
Outdated Beliefs
 Redefining: Distorting of self, others &
  world
 Discounting: Ignoring / minimizing
  contrary evidence
       Detect clues in behaviour.
       Help to update script beliefs,
        resolve script feelings, and move
        out of scripty behaviour.
Therapy Through TA: 1
Challenging Out-Dated Beliefs
   Working with racket feelings
   Peeling the onion
   Confronting the games
   Confronting the discounts
   Moving to intimacy at Switch
Therapy Through TA: 2
    Making New Decisions
      (Robert and Mary Goulding)



    Making the contract
  Closing the escape hatch
    Providing safe setting
Making a Redecision: 1
 Establish a session contract.
 Invite a client to re-experience a problem scene.
 Invite a client to re-experience a related scene from
  childhood.
 While client is in child ego state invite to the present
  resources (the Adult ego state).
Making a Redecision: 2

When during the Child ego state, invite client to make a
new decision and watch the shift to authentic feeling.
Bring client to Adult ego state; invite to anchor the re-
decision immediately in the Here-and-Now
Carry out Adult to de-brief, the meaning of the new
decision.
Negotiate with client a contract to practice new decision.
TA: Advantages
 Quick psychoanalysis: Understood on a "here-and-
  now" basis.
 Universal usage: Utilized in day-to-day communication
  with others, irrespective of age, sex & situation.
 Repairing relationships: Used in understanding and
  managing relationship with another.
 Self-analysis: Used to understand and change oneself.
 Restructuring PT: Used in restructuring psychotherapy

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  • 1. IMPART Workshop 5 TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS AND REDECISION THERAPY
  • 3. With Claude Steiner, Eric Bernes associate
  • 4. Practice & Philosophy of TA People are OK. Everyone has the capacity to think. People decide their own destiny, and these decisions can be changed.
  • 5. CRITICAL: COMMANDS, ORDERS (DATA OF UNVERIFIED AUTHENTICITY) E NURTURING: CARING, LOVING G O PROCESSING DETAILS, RATIONAL THINKING CAUSE & EFFECT RELATIONSHIP G REALITY R A ADAPTED: BORROWED EMOTIONS M NATURAL: CURIOSITY, SPONTANEOUS EMOTIONS, CREATIVITY, FUN, JOY, SEXUAL EMOTION, INTUITION
  • 6. S=Stimulus R=Response Complimentary P S P R Transaction A A The transactional vectors are parallel and C C the ego state addressed is the one which responds. It can P P be from any ego state to any other ego state. A A C C
  • 7. Crossed Transaction The transactional vectors are not parallel or the ego P P state addressed is not the one which responds. In a A A crossed transaction the response comes from an C C unexpected ego state.
  • 8. Ulterior Transaction (Angular) P P A transaction is overtly directed at one (social) level, but covertly at A A another (psychological) level. C C
  • 9. Ulterior Transaction (Duplex) Both the persons P P involve in a more important secret (psychological) A A transaction underlying the overt (social) transaction. C C
  • 10. How do we remember? Memory = Event + Emotion Recall = Emotion + Event
  • 11. Strokes Positive, Negative & discounting Conditional & Unconditional Verbal, Non-verbal, action
  • 12. Claude Steiners Stroke Economy DONT GIVE +VE STROKES GIVE VE STROKES DONT ACCEPT +VE STROKES ACCEPT VE STROKES DONT SELF-STROKE
  • 13. Stroke Economy DONT GIVE +VE STROKES DONT GIVE VE STROKES DONT ACCEPT +VE STROKES DONT ACCEPT VE STROKES DONT SELF-STROKE
  • 14. Common Script Beliefs COMMANDS BELIEFS You mustnt exist. I mustnt exist. You mustnt be you. I mustnt be me. You mustnt be a child. I mustnt be a child. You mustnt grow up. I mustnt grow up. You mustnt make it. I mustnt make it. You mustnt do anything. I mustnt do anything. You mustnt be important. I mustnt be important. You mustnt belong. I mustnt belong. You mustnt be close. I mustnt be close. You mustnt be well (sane). I mustnt be well (sane). You mustnt think. I mustnt think. You mustnt feel. I mustnt feel.
  • 15. Life Script Each person decides upon a plan for his/her life beginning in earliest childhood. It is constructed in the form of drama with a clear-cut beginning, middle, & end. Script payoff: Closing scene of the script
  • 16. Life course depends on Heredity External events Life-script Autonomous decisions
  • 17. Early Decisions Injunctions Commands Attributes Modelling
  • 18. What decides our behaviour? Early experiences Decisions & Scripts Psychological positions Script-reinforcing behaviours
  • 19. Life Positions Im not OK, Youre OK. Im not OK, Youre not OK. Im OK, Youre not OK. Im OK, Youre OK.
  • 20. YOU ARE OKAY WITH ME I AM NOT OK I AM OK YOU ARE OK YOU ARE OK I AM NOT OKAY WITH ME One down position Healthy position I AM OKAY WITH ME Get away from, helpless Get on with, happy I AM NOT OK I AM OK YOU ARE NOT OK YOU ARE NOT OK Helpless position One up position Get nowhere with, hopeless Get rid of, Angry YOU ARE NOT OKAY WITH ME
  • 21. Tragic Script Outcomes Killing or Harming self Killing or Harming others Going crazy
  • 22. Racket and Racket Feelings RACKET FEELING: A familiar emotion, acquired in childhood, and expressed later under stress. It is a substitute for another feeling prohibited in family of origin. RACKET: A set of manipulative thoughts & behaviours intended outside awareness to justify in experiencing a racket feeling. Each time a person gets strokes for a racket or racket feeling, she will interpret this in Child as confirmation of her script beliefs.
  • 23. Questions to elicit racket feelings How do you express when you fail in exams? What do you tell to your Boss/Wife when you arrive late? What kinds of topics do you like most? What aspects do you expect from your favorite film star? While talking for long time with your friend in mobile, What excuse do you give to your mother?
  • 24. A Racket System RACKET SYSTEM SCRIPT BELIEFS RACKETY DISPLAYS REINFORCING MEMORIES Beliefs about: 1 Observable behaviours Emotional memories 1 Self (stylized, repetitive) (trading stamps) 2 Others provide evidence & 2 Reported internal 3 Quality of life justification experience (somatic (Intrapsychic process) ailments: physical Feelings repressed at sensations) the time of script 3 Fantasies decision
  • 25. Time Structuring Withdrawal: Being to oneself Procedures: Give & take Rituals: Wishing each other Pastimes: Mine is better than yours Activities: Action and satisfaction Games: Transaction with a switch > negative strokes Intimacy: Opening with others without walls > positive strokes
  • 26. Arena of the Games: Karpmans Triangle Persecutor Rescuer Victim
  • 27. Applying TA Therapy Help client close escape hatches. Develop therapeutic contract. Describe specific tenets & terminology of TA. Create awareness of scripts. Reinforce redecisions. Enforce cognitive/rational domain of behaviou.r Challenge to change current pattern.s Enhance client autonomy to reduce dependence.
  • 28. Closing Escape Hatches You need to promise yourself that - You will never, in any circumstances, kill or harm yourself, try to kill or harm yourself, or set up to kill or harm yourself, accidentally or on purpose. - You will never, in circumstances, kill or harm anyone else, try to kill or harm anyone else, or set up to kill or harm anyone else, accidentally or on purpose. - You will never, in any circumstances, go crazy, try to go crazy or set up to go crazy, accidentally or on purpose.
  • 29. Therapeutic Contract: Why? 1. To have the client actively involved in the counselling process 2. To provide a mental set towards change 3. To know when the work is complete 4. To guard against imposition of the therapists goals on the client. 5. To discourage pursuit of covert agendas
  • 30. Effective Contract-making 1. Is the contract goal feasible? 2. Is it safe? 3. Is it stated in positive words? 4. Is it observable? 5. Is it placed in a clear context? 6. Does this mark a movement out of script and into the autonomy for the client?
  • 31. Tasks of Therapist Confront Script Invite Autonomy INTERVENTION - Effective - Harmful - Ineffective
  • 32. Techniques of TA Active listening skills Finding the script Confrontation for redecision process Role-play Contracts to achieve target Enhance redecision process: get commitment to change Self-scripting
  • 33. ELICITATION WINDOW Dr VINOD CHEBBI, Bangalore
  • 34. Discovering Racket & Racket Feelings When things go wrong for you, how do you feel? Do you recognize this as a familiar feeling of yours? Is it a feeling you experience in response to a wide range of different situations? When did you last feel these feelings? What was the situation in which you felt it? With hindsight, how far would you say you had a part in setting up that situation, though you are not responsible?
  • 35. Discovering Racket & Racket Feelings (Contd.) Did the feeling you felt help you to get your needs met in the here-and-now? When you were a child, was this feeling favoured or rewarded in your family? Suppose you were using this favoured feeling to cover up another feeling that was prohibited or punished when you were a child, what would you guess is this original feeling you were covering up?
  • 36. Outdated Beliefs Redefining: Distorting of self, others & world Discounting: Ignoring / minimizing contrary evidence Detect clues in behaviour. Help to update script beliefs, resolve script feelings, and move out of scripty behaviour.
  • 37. Therapy Through TA: 1 Challenging Out-Dated Beliefs Working with racket feelings Peeling the onion Confronting the games Confronting the discounts Moving to intimacy at Switch
  • 38. Therapy Through TA: 2 Making New Decisions (Robert and Mary Goulding) Making the contract Closing the escape hatch Providing safe setting
  • 39. Making a Redecision: 1 Establish a session contract. Invite a client to re-experience a problem scene. Invite a client to re-experience a related scene from childhood. While client is in child ego state invite to the present resources (the Adult ego state).
  • 40. Making a Redecision: 2 When during the Child ego state, invite client to make a new decision and watch the shift to authentic feeling. Bring client to Adult ego state; invite to anchor the re- decision immediately in the Here-and-Now Carry out Adult to de-brief, the meaning of the new decision. Negotiate with client a contract to practice new decision.
  • 41. TA: Advantages Quick psychoanalysis: Understood on a "here-and- now" basis. Universal usage: Utilized in day-to-day communication with others, irrespective of age, sex & situation. Repairing relationships: Used in understanding and managing relationship with another. Self-analysis: Used to understand and change oneself. Restructuring PT: Used in restructuring psychotherapy