origin of life scripts
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Script decisions represent the infant’s best strategy for surviving in a world which often seems hostile, even life threatening. Script decisions are made on the basis of an infant’s emotions and reality testing.TRANSCRIPT
Origin of scripts
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Origin of scripts
• Why do we make these sweeping infant decisions about ourselves, others and the world?
• What function do they serve?
• The answer lie in two crucial features of script formation.
Origin of scripts
• Script decisions represent the infant’s best strategy for surviving in a world which often seems hostile, even life threatening.
• Script decisions are made on the basis of an infant’s emotions and reality testing.
Response to a hostile world• The infant is small and
physically vulnerable. To her, the world is populated by lumbering giants.
• An unexpected noise may signal that her life is in immediate danger.
• Without words or coherent thinking, she knows that if mother or father go away, she will die.
Response to a hostile world• When the child is two or
three years old, perhaps a brother or sister is born and mothers attention is taken away by new arrival.
• Right through the years of script formation, the child is in a one down position.
• She perceives her parents as having total power.
Response to a hostile world
• In her infancy, that power is
of life or death. Later, it is
to satisfy her needs or
leave them unsatisfied.
• Her response is to decide
upon strategies for staying
alive and getting her needs
met as best she can.
Early reality testing and emotions
• Baby’s emotional
experience is of rage, utter
misery, terror or ecstasy.
• He makes early decisions in
response to these intense
feelings.
• Thus it is not surprising that
the decisions are often
extreme.
Early reality testing and emotions
• A young child does not
think like a grown up. Nor
does she experience
emotion in the same way.
• Script decisions are made
on the basis of a child’s
distinctive ways of
thinking and feeling.
Early reality testing and emotions
• In the logic of the infant, the
rule is to reason from the
particular to general.
• Suppose the child’s mother is
inconsistent in responding to
her demands.
• The child doesn’t concludes that
mother is untrustworthy.
Instead, she concludes that
people can’t be trusted.
Early reality testing and emotions
• The child may compensate for
his feeling of powerlessness by
imagining he is omnipotent or
can work magic.
• If the child senses he is being
rejected by a parent, he may
attribute the fault to himself ,
deciding “There is something
wrong with me”.
Thank You
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