TA for Learners - 00.07 TA Script Theory
TA for Learners 00.07 TA Script Theory (This Blog is a Chapter in 'My Little TA Book') List of Contents Introduction Berne mentions that "Script is a psychological force that propels people toward their destiny, regardless of whether t he y fight it or say it is of their own free will". Script is also a psychological compulsion to accomplish a predetermined life event. Script is short for Life Script. Script is a self authored life plan, 'written' in childhood, under parental influence, reinforced in growing years and directed toward a predefined goal. The goal is called the script payoff. Script is an intra -psychic mechanism. It is structured by childhood decisions. These get recorded as memories in the brain. Script becomes activated when a person's scripty view of reality is challenged. The affected person’s executive control of his faculties is taken over by the script mechanism. These include his thinking and...