Almost Script - Transactional Analysis
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The document discusses the concept of the 'almost script,' which describes individuals who consistently come close to achieving their goals but never fully succeed. It introduces two types of 'almost patterns': 'almost type I,' where individuals repeatedly fail to reach their aspirations, and 'almost type II,' where high achievers fail to appreciate their accomplishments and continuously seek greater challenges. Examples illustrate these patterns, and it concludes with references to related topics in transactional analysis.
Almost Script - Transactional Analysis
- 2. Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy Research Scholar School of Management Studies CUSAT, Kerala, India. Phone – 9744551114 Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com Kindly restrict the use of slides for personal purpose. Please seek permission to reproduce the same in public forms and presentations.
- 3. Almost Script Sisyphus 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.”
- 4. Almost Script Fred 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.
- 5. Almost Script Living 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.
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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.
- 8. Almost Script But 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.
- 9. Almost Script The 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.
- 10. Almost Script Now 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.
- 11. Almost Script There 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.”
- 12. Almost Script Alternatively, 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.”
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