Scripts people live : transactional analysis of life scripts / Claude M. Steiner ; with a new foreword by the author.

"An Evergreen book"--P. 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.

Introduction -- The Basic Assumptions of Transactional Analysis -- People Are O.K -- Communication and Contracts -- Curability -- I'm O.K. You're O.K. What's Your Game Give Me A Stroke Cha Cha Cha -- Eric Berne -- Scripts -- Eric Berne's Script -- Script Analysis -- The Significance of Script Analysis in Psychiatry -- Section 1. Transactional Analysis Theory -- 1. Structural and Transactional Analysis -- Structural Analysis -- The Child -- The Adult -- The Parent -- Voices in the Head -- Exclusions and Contaminations -- Transactional Analysis -- Games and Payoffs -- Stimulus Hunger -- Structure Hunger -- Position Hunger -- Roles and Degrees -- 2. Second-Order Structural Analysis -- Egograms -- Section 2. Script Analysis -- 3. Oedipus Revisited -- 4. The Existential Predicament of Children -- Witches, Ogres, and Curses -- Injunctions -- Attributions -- Witchcraft -- Good Magic -- Bad Magic -- 5. Decisions -- Time of The Decision -- Form of The Decision -- Frogs, Princes, and Princesses -- 6. Transactional Analysis of Scripts -- The Three Basic Life Scripts -- Depression, or No Love Script -- Madness, or No Mind Script -- Drug Addiction, or No Joy Script -- Transactional Analysis Diagnosis -- Injunctions and Attributions -- The Counterscript -- The Decision -- The Somatic Component -- 7. Scripts: Tragic to Banal -- A Script Checklist -- Life Course -- Counterscript -- Parental Injunctions and Attributions -- Program -- Game -- Pastime -- Payoff -- Tragic Ending -- Therapist's Role -- Twenty Questions -- Does Everyone Have a Script? -- 8. Basic Training: Training in Lovelessness -- A Fuzzy Tale -- The Stroke Economy -- The Stroke Economy Rules -- 9. Basic Training: Training in Mindlessness -- Awareness -- Discounts -- Discounts of Intuition -- Discounts of Personal Emotions -- Discounts of Rationality -- The King (or Queen) Has No Clothes -- Lying -- Madness -- Paranoia -- 10. Basic Training: Training in Joylessness -- Injunctions and Attributions for Joylessness -- 11. Rescue: The Banal Scripting of Powerlessness -- The Rescue Game -- Powerlessness -- The Rescue Triangle in the Nuclear Family -- The Three Roles -- Rescuer -- Persecutor -- Victim -- 12. Competition: The Banal Scripting of Inequality -- Individualism -- Competitiveness -- Scarcity -- Power Plays -- Section 3. Relationships -- 13. Sex Role Scripting in Men and Women (by Hogie Wyckoff) -- Structural Analysis of Sex Roles - Men -- Structural Analysis of Sex Roles - Women -- Sex Roles and the Family -- Sex Roles and Relationships -- The Sex Role Conspiracy -- Combating Sex Roles -- 14. Banal Scripts of Women (by Hogie Wyckoff) -- Mother Hubbard -- Plastic Woman -- The Woman Behind the Man -- Pool Little Me -- Creeping Beauty -- Nurse -- Fat Woman -- Teacher -- Guerrilla Witch -- Tough Lady -- Queen Bee -- 15. Banal Scripts of Men -- Big Daddy -- Man in Front of the Woman -- Playboy -- Jock -- Intellectual -- Woman Hater -- 16. Relationships in Scripts -- Tragic and Banal Relationships -- The Three Enemies of Love -- Sexism -- The Rescue Game in Relationships -- 17. Power Plays -- Power -- Power Plays -- One-Up Power Plays -- One-Down Power Plays -- Pitched Battle -- Analysis of Power Plays -- Section 4. Therapy -- 18. Myths of Therapy -- Introduction -- The Myth of the Value of One-to-One Individual Therapy -- The Myth of the Uselessness of Common Sense -- The Myth of Mental Illness and the Relevance of Medicine to Therapy -- 19. How to Avoid Rescue -- The Rescue Triangle in Therapy -- How Not to Play the Rescue Game -- 20. Contracts -- Mutual Consent -- Mutual Consent Implies Mutual Effort -- Consideration -- Competency -- Lawful Object -- 21. Strategies of Script Analysis -- Work -- Game Playing -- Antithesis or Command -- Attack -- Fun -- The Gallows Transaction -- Permission -- Protection -- Potency -- Permission Classes -- Marathons -- Homework -- Unloading Negative Feelings -- Held Resentments -- Paranoid Fantasies -- 22. The Therapy of the Three Basic Scripts: The Therapy of Depression -- Breaking Down the Stroke Economy -- Faith in Human Nature -- Stroke Starvation -- Acceptance and Rejection of Strokes -- Nurturing -- Plastic vs. Warm Fuzzies -- Touching -- Organizing a Stroking Community -- Exercises -- Giving Strokes -- Asking for Strokes -- Self-Stroking and Nurturing Parent -- Massage -- 23. The Therapy of Madness -- Accounting -- Discount Power Plays -- 24. The Therapy of Joylessness -- Breathing -- Centering -- Section 5. The Good Life -- 25. Cooperation -- Cooperation, Rules -- Two, Three or More -- 26. Child-Rearing for Autonomy -- Raising Children for Autonomy: 10 Rules -- 27. Men's and Women's Liberation -- Sex Role Oppression -- Men's Trust Circle -- Men's Great Curses: Responsibility and Guilt -- Liberated Relationships and Lifestyles -- 28. After Scripts, What?.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Grove Press, 1974.

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