The Script System: An Unconscious Organization of Experience

Authors

  • Marye O'Reilly-Knapp
  • Richard G. Erskine

Keywords:

script system, unconscious organization, integrative transactional analysis psychotherapy

Abstract

This article describes the script system with a case study to illustrate the four primary components: script beliefs; behavioral, fantasy and physiological manifestations; reinforcing experiences; and the intrapsychic process of repressed needs and feelings. The article was originally published in Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns, edited by Richard G. Erskine, reprinted with kind permission of Karnac Books.

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Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Articles