losing scripts - Life script (Transactional analysis / TA is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy)
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The document discusses the concept of a 'losing script,' defining a loser not solely by failure in achieving goals but by the accompanying emotional discomfort. It categorizes losing scripts into three degrees based on severity, from social failures to severe crises leading to harmartic outcomes. The author emphasizes the distinction between material success and personal fulfillment in determining winners and losers.
losing scripts - Life script (Transactional analysis / TA is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy)
- 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. Losing script • A loser means someone who does not accomplish a declared purpose. • Once again, it is not just the accomplishment or otherwise that matters, but the degree of comfort that goes with it.
- 4. Losing script • If I decide to become a great leader, join army and finish up being drummed out in disgrace, I am a loser. • I am also a loser if I decide to be a millionaire, become one and feel perpetually miserable because of my ulcer and the pressure of business.
- 5. Losing script Berne was careful to define winner and loser in relation to accomplished declared purposes because he wanted to emphasize that winners are not simply to be equated with people who piled up material goods and money. Nor were losers necessarily those people who were short of material things.
- 6. Losing script A losing script can be broadly classified as first, second and third degree, according to the severity of the payoff.
- 7. Losing script A first degree losing script is one where the failures and losses are mild enough to be discussed in the person's social circle. Ex : Repetitive quarrels at work, failure in exams etc.
- 8. Losing script Second degree losers experience unpleasant script outcomes that are serious enough to be unacceptable topics for social conversation. Ex : fired from series of job, hospitalized for severe depression etc.
- 9. Losing script • A third degree losing script culminates in death, serious injury or illness or a legal crisis. • Third degree payoff might be imprisonment for stealing the firm’s funds, life long hospitalization for a psychiatric disorder or suicide after failing final examinations.
- 10. Losing script • We often use the term harmartic to describe third degree losing scripts and their payoffs. • The word is derived from the ancient Greek harmartia, meaning “a basic flaw”. • It reflects the way in which a losing script, like an ancient Greek drama, seems to lead inexorably from the early negative decision to the tragic final scene.
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