1. TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS A BRIEF OVERVIEW www.paperhint.com

2. EACH OF US IS REALLY THREE PEOPLE!!!! www.paperhint.com

3. THREE MODES OF BEHAVIOR Parent Adult Child These are called EGO STATES They are Felt states of being and not just roles. www.paperhint.com

4. Child Ego State Natural Child(PRINCE)- Hateful/ loving/ spontaneous/ playful Intuitive Child(LITTLE PROFESSOR)- Thoughtful/ imaginative/ creative Adapted Child(FROG)- fearful/ guilty/ ashamed www.paperhint.com

5. 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 oppressive or life giving, supportive and tender. www.paperhint.com

6. Overly Critical- Critical parent Loving and nurturing the child- Nurturing parent www.paperhint.com

7. Adult Ego State Has no emotions – able to detach from feelings. Logical. www.paperhint.com

8. Contamination When the Adult uses information which has its source in the Child or in the Parent and which may be incorrect. Prejudice. www.paperhint.com

9. Voices in the head!! Parental Tapes being played over in our minds. They may be good or bad depending on which parent’s tapes we are playing. www.paperhint.com

10. 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). www.paperhint.com

11. RELATIONSHIPS Child to Child Parent to parent Child to Adult Adult to Parent Adult to Adult www.paperhint.com

12. STROKES The recognition that one person gives to another Essential to a person's life Can vary from actual physical touch to praise www.paperhint.com

13. MOST OF US SUFFER FROM STROKE HUNGER!!!!!! www.paperhint.com

14. Positive Strokes- “I love you”, “ you did a good 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!! www.paperhint.com

15. We should learn to open our hearts and ask for strokes. It makes life easier. www.paperhint.com

16. There are five ways people can structure their time to get strokes: www.paperhint.com

17. RITUALS, PASTIMES, GAMES, INTIMACY, WORK www.paperhint.com

18. RITUAL A pre-set exchange of recognition strokes. "Hi!" “How are you?" "Fine, thanks." "Well, see you around. Bye!" This is a four-stroke ritual. www.paperhint.com

19. PASTIME A pre-set conversation around a certain subject. Pastimes are most evident at cocktail parties and family get-together. www.paperhint.com

20. 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 getting strokes. www.paperhint.com

21. Intimacy A direct and powerful exchange of strokes which people crave but seldom attain The Child is frightened away from it by hurtful experiences. www.paperhint.com

22. Work An activity which has a product as its result. Good work results in the exchange of strokes as a side effect. www.paperhint.com

23. 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 a stimulus and response. www.paperhint.com

24. Complementary Transaction between Adult and Adult Parent to Child Parent to Parent www.paperhint.com

25. Communication can continue between ego states as long as trans-actions are parallel. Whenever a disruption of communication occurs, a crossed transaction caused it. www.paperhint.com

26. 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. www.paperhint.com

27. Discount Transaction One very important kind of crossed transaction Here one person completely disregards what the other one is saying. Discounts are not always obvious but are always unpleasant www.paperhint.com

28. Covert Transactions A covert transaction is when people say one thing and mean another. Are the basis of games and are especially interesting because they are crooked. They have a social (overt) and a psychological (covert) level. www.paperhint.com

29. WHY DON’T YOU, YES BUT (YDYB,) RAPO, AND THEIR PAYOFFS. www.paperhint.com

30. 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 the existential position of each player. www.paperhint.com

31. RACKETS & STAMPS People collect psychological trading stamps to be traded in for a divorce, a suicide, a drug binge or a blow-up. www.paperhint.com

32. ROLES & DEGREES The three basic game roles are Persecutor, Rescuer, and Victim Games can be played soft or hard www.paperhint.com

33. TURNING PEOPLE INTO FROGS People are born princes and princesses Their parents turn them into frogs. Parents script their children www.paperhint.com

34. IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISCARD YOUR SCRIPT AND WRITE A NEW ONE AUTONOMOUSLY!!!! www.paperhint.com

35. 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 be escaping the life-course? www.paperhint.com

36. Parental Injunction. In what way did the Child in mother and father interfere with the person's OK-ness? The Game. Every script is based on a major game The Pastime. How does a person structure most of their spare time with others? www.paperhint.com

37. The Tragic Ending Extremist, self-destructive scripts. Banal scripts. www.paperhint.com

38. The Therapist's Role. A good therapist is aware of roles and how to avoid them. www.paperhint.com

39. GOOD AND BAD GAMES and SCRIPTS Even though games are crooked they can sometimes be useful. Certain scripts may have socially redeeming features www.paperhint.com

40. THREE P’s; PERMISSION, PROTECTION, POTENCY www.paperhint.com