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Life Scripts
Life Scripts
11 March 2016
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Life-Script: Not unlike the kind of scripts actors are familiar with, they too have a beginning, a
middle and an end. Life-scripts (more-often referred to as scripts in Transactional Analysis (TA)
) have characters that play significant roles such as the heroes and villains, all which make the
story exciting, tragic or perhaps even futile. The difference in life-scripts is that we are our own
creators; I developed and have my own life-script like you have yours……and who said you had
no artistic flare?!
The theory of life-script was developed by Eric Berne; the notion suggests that our stories are
very much written unconsciously (hence why this may seem a little odd to read at first) and from
birth. From 0-7 years all the roles are allocated, including our own as the leading person, and by
7 all the main parts of the story are plotted; they’re then to be tweaked and buffed through to the
age of 12 years. We rely heavily on fantasy based beliefs through our younger years therefore it
is through adolescence that our scripts are continually up-dated with more tangible characters.
Here are two questions to consider when thinking about your own script:
What title would you give to your life story; your script?
Also, what type of story is it; happy, tragic or magical?
The theory of script was developed in the mid 60’s and has been built upon to the extent that
today, in TA, it forms one of the fundamental concepts. Here are a few developed definitions to
contemplate:
Script is decisional
Whereas decisional in the usual dictionary sense suggests intent, in this definition it
accommodates individual differences as a factor. Unlike adult decisions making, script decisions
are a result of feelings and are made before the development of language. Each individual infant,
subconsciously determines their own script development and this is why siblings are very
different, regardless of growing up in the same environment.