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A HEARTY

WELCOME TO ALL

OF YOU!

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A crazy person says,

“I am Abraham Lincoln.”

A neurotic says,

“I wish I were Abraham Lincoln.”

A healthy person says,

“I am I, and you are you.”

Frederick Perls

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Four kinds of Analysis

• Structural Analysis: The analysis

of individual personality.

• Transactional Analysis: What

people do and say to one another.

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Contd...

• Script Analysis:

The analysis of specific life dramas that persons compulsively play out.

• Game Analysis: Ulterior

transactions leading to a payoff.

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• All are born ok
• Everyone has the capacity to

think.

• Everyone has decided, life-

story and can change these

decisions at any time.

INTRODUCTION

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• A Consistent pattern of feeling and

experience directly to a corresponding

consistent pattern of behavior.

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• EGO states comprises the natural way

of experiencing and of recording

experiences in their totality.

Simultaneously, of course, experiences

are recorded in fragmented forms...

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System of feelings accompanied by a

related set of behavior pattern.

Each individual seems to have

available limited repertoire of such

ego states, which are not roles, but

psychological realities.

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• Everyone’s behavior will operate from any one of these 5 ego states.
• Everyone has 3 Ego states, i.e. Parents will have Child Ego and vice versa.
• We can switch over from one to another very easily & quickly.

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ANY EGO STATE. . .

• Feel
• Smell
• Touch
• Speak
• Listen
• Look

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Contd...

• In general, winners have the following Ego state:

- Parent 15%

- Adult 30%

- Child 55%

• Except during sleeping, everyone of us behave in any one of the Ego states.

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PARENT EGO - EXTEROPSYCHIC

The same state of mind as one of your parents (or a parental substitute) used to be, and we respond as he/she would, with be same

• Posture
• Gesture
• Vocabulary
• Feelings etc.

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Parent EGO State

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• Attitude and behavior incorporated from external sources, perceived by a person, expressed towards others in

• Prejudicial
• Critical
• Nurturing Behavior

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PARENT EGO - TAUGHT

• A set of advice carried

forward. The stored data is

- Unquestioned

- Unverified

- Unedited recordings in the

brain from external sources.

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It consists of dictums,

instructions, statements, do’s &

don'ts, advice, special taboos,

religious beliefs,

internationalized behavior.

Contd...

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ADULT EGO - NEOPSYCHIC

You made an autonomous, objective appraisal of the situation and are stating these thought-processes, or the problems you perceive or the

conclusions you have come to in non-prejudicial manner.

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Contd...

- Using logic

- Autonomously on the consideration

of objective facts

- In a non-prejudicial manner

- Continually re-examines the data

/ decision making.

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ADULT EGO STATE - THOUGHT

- Adult ego starts about ten

months or so.

- Tests against realities

- Makes decisions

- Functioning like a Computer

- Planning for the future

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Contd...

• Oriented to current reality
• Gathering of information
• It is organized, adaptable,

intelligent, estimating

probabilities, computing

dispassionately.

THOUGHT

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CHILD EGO - ARCHAEOPSYCHIC

The manner and intent of our reaction is the same as it would have been when we were a very little boy or girl.

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CHILD EGO - FELT

- Parent Ego state recordings are

from external sources.

- Child experiences “Feelings &

Emotions” .

- Generated internally in response

to external events

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PROCEDURES

• Social activity
• Universal
• Local
• All of them to be learned
• Simple complementary transactions

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Thought, Feelings, Behavior, Voice Tones, Vocabulary, Physical Postures, Facial Expressions, Gestures

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Thought, Feelings, Behavior, Voice Tones, Vocabulary, Physical Postures, Facial Expressions, Gestures

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CRITICAL PARENT

Authoritative, Judgmental, Persuasive parents, punitive, critical, sneering, commanding, disapproving, dominating, dictatorial, judge, watchdog, conformance to the norms of the society, follow the rules & regulations, take things more emotionally.

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Thought, Feelings, Behavior, Voice Tones, Vocabulary, Physical Postures, Facial Expressions, Gestures

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NURTURING PARENT

• Sympathetic
• Protective
• Supportive
• Encouraging
• Appreciation
• Recognition

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Contd...

- Playful, manipulative,

selfish, creative, innovative,

mischievous.

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Thought, Feelings, Behavior, Voice Tones, Vocabulary, Physical Postures, Facial Expressions, Gestures

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ADAPTIVE CHILD

- Learns to adjust to the rewards

& punishments.

- Adapt to the social environment

in order to get recognition.

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Child’s Self-Concept

Parent’s expectations, Attitude towards peers, Family/personal problems, economic problems, opinion of peers, religious affiliation, school demands, school opportunities, impact of radio & other media, intellect, biological maturation, physical state of the family, attitude towards family members.

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PERSONALITY

Upbringing in family, school, college, genes heredity, religion, friends, financial status in childhood, society, politics, role models, media, own values & beliefs, unknown factors.

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STROKE

• Unit of recognition
• Human beings have various hungers
• Stroke hunger is needed for

physical & mental stimulation

• While young, we need physical

touch

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Any stroke is better than

Contd...

No strike

Indifferences

If you don’t get a kiss;

You look for a kick

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• As we grow, physical touch has

been substituted by

Contd...

Positive

Conditional

Unconditional

Verbal

Verbal

Non-verbal

Non-verbal

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Contd...

Negative

Conditional

Unconditional

Verbal

Verbal

Non-verbal

Non-verbal

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Contd...

• Positive stroke -> Experience

is Pleasant.

• Negative stroke -> Experience

is Painful.

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Conditional Stroke for doing

- If you achieve this target, you will get an increment.

Unconditional Stroke for being

- Once more if you fail to reach the target, you may have to look out for...

- If you score more than 400 marks, I will get you a watch.

- No problem, you can watch TV, let marks come, I will show my face.