PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eric Berne, Transactional Analysis, Impulsivity
24 Jan 2020
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Transactions are the flow of communication, and more specifically the unspoken psychological flow of communication that runs in parallel. To read the real communication requires both surface and non-verbal reading. Strokes are the recognition, attention or responsiveness that one person gives another. Strokes can be positive (nicknamed "warm fuzzies"[7]) or negative ("cold pricklies"). A key idea is that people hunger for recognition, and that lacking positive strokes, will seek whatever kind they can, even if it is recognition of a negative kind. Eric berne ip: popularized transactional analysis by books: games people play, i"m ok your ok. Better able to avoid psychological game playing. Eric berne ip states: child ego state: Displaying curiosity, need for fun, joy, intimacy, fantasy, impulsivity. Either compliant. (placating) or rebellious (demanding, defiant, or whiney: early (or somatic) child. Crybaby: early adult (or little professor) Referee between parent ego state (demands) and child (wants: parent ego state:
