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(Berne, "Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy" pp. 64-65)
(Berne, "Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy" pp. 64-65)
Turning this into a TA thread.
Why do we do anything? Headpats, real or virtual. https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1063835030869458945?s=19
Why do we do anything? Headpats, real or virtual. https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1063835030869458945?s=19
We trade in virtual headpats (recognition-hunger) of many varieties which ideally lead to real ones (stimulus-hunger). https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1064192192250605575?s=19
Trauma's like a stack of PersonalityCoin. Therapy is supposed to help you knock it down and then put it back together.
Memory (and trauma) is phenomenologically like a function stack.
* At the time any memory was constructed, you were acting based on a set of older memories present at the time.
* Each older memory had its own set of even older memories.
* Recurse down to [Freudian Conflict].
![Memory (and trauma) is phenomenologically like a function stack.* At the time any memory was constructed, you were acting based on a set of older memories present at the time.* Each older memory had its own set of even older memories.* Recurse down to [Freudian Conflict].](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsTJ3afX4AAGBWb.jpg "Memory (and trauma) is phenomenologically like a function stack.* At the time any memory was constructed, you were acting based on a set of older memories present at the time.* Each older memory had its own set of even older memories.* Recurse down to [Freudian Conflict].")
* At the time any memory was constructed, you were acting based on a set of older memories present at the time.
* Each older memory had its own set of even older memories.
* Recurse down to [Freudian Conflict].
Some supplementary TA reading re the Internet. For explanation of P₁+ and P₁- see third attached image. Pdf link: https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/3041496/99d821a350b56f78bd68b1403065e869.pdf?1542225400
Got another Eric Berne book, "What do you say after you say hello?"
Reviving this thread in its honor. Here's a fun start.
Reviving this thread in its honor. Here's a fun start.
"antiscript" (defiance) vs freedom, something many on here might benefit from understanding
What was your favorite childhood story?
Emotional "reward stamp" collecting as a means of justifying one's suffering or acting out (there's several pages on this but this paragraph alone sums it up).
(basically: we "collect" instances where we feel certain negative emotions, we show them off to people, we trade them in for valid excuses to act out, if you collect more you can trade in for a bigger prize)
(here's a longer explanation)
We've exchanged the mortgage for the college loan, and also he's wrong about what happens when people "just spend their time enjoying themselves": society is adept at inventing new ways to sort folks into winners and losers.
This applies to more than drinking, could be any addiction: junk food, smoking, so on. Consider how people talk about addiction. It's always "X is so bad for you", and never just "Stop X!"
Last night I dreamt that cats on horseback were chasing me around a tenth floor apartment. What could this mean?
You CAN tell people what to do, and you CAN help people, and they don't have to help themselves.
Desires are visual, and directives are auditory (cf. Jaynes).
The three types of authority, at least in 1968 USA: "science", "chicken soup", and "religion".
Psychiatric hospitals as places where patients "learn the rules of mental illness."
How to read & listen like a (script analysis) psychologist.
The 6 types of laugher and what they mean.
Re. the "arsisiety" type: "Each person has his own society, with friends as well as enemies. Psychiatry cannot fight The Board, The Establishment, or The Man, it can only fight what is in the patient's head."
Therapy as Botany vs Therapy as Engineering
What is a script? What is autonomy? Berne lays it out plainly.
And that's the end :'( it's the last thing Berne published and it reads like a lifetime of wisdom.
Luckily I also found a copy of the rarer "The Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups" which I will likely read shortly.
