Racket Analysis

Prepared By

Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorSCMS School of Technology and Management

Kerala, India.

Phone – 9744551114Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Imagine

Feeling

1. Different people reportdifferent feelings.

2. The feeling registered is onethat you experience in a widerange of different stresssituation.

3. The feeling registered is onethat was modeled orencouraged in your family,while other feelings werediscouraged or prohibited.

4. The emotion you felt didnothing towards solving yourproblem.

Racket and racket feeling

Racket feeling is a familiar emotion, learnedand encouraged in childhood, experienced inmany different stress situations, andmaladaptive as an adult means of problemsolving.

Racket is a set of scripty behavior, employedoutside awareness as a means of manipulatingthe environment, and entailing the person’sexperiencing a racket feeling.

Racket and script

• Any time your experience aracket feeling, you are in script.

• As children, we use racketfeeling to get our needs met infamilies.

• We attempt to manipulate theenvironment so as to gain theparental support we gained inchildhood by experiencing andshowing these racket feelings.

Racket and authentic feelings

• The distinction was first suggested by FanitaEnglish.

• A racket feeling is always a substitute for anotherfeeling, one which was prohibited in ourchildhood.

• Authentic feelings are those feelings weexperience as young children, before we learn tocensor them as being discouraged in the family.

• The list of authentic feelings are mad, sad, scaredand glad.

Are racket feelings bad?

• Not all racket feelings wouldbe categorized as “bad” bythe people who experienceit.

• Good racket feelings arehappiness, blamelessness oreuphoria. But all thesefeelings are unauthentic.

• Names give to authenticfeelings are also give toracket feeling.

Racket and authentic feelings

• Expression of authentic feeling is appropriateas means of here and now problem solvingwhile expression of racket feeling is not.

• When we express an authentic feeling, we dosomething that helps finish the situation forus.

• When we express our racket feeling, we leavethe situation unfinished.

Activity

• In the previous example, what was your authentic feeling.

Racketeering

• Fanita English coined the word“Racketeering” to describe a way oftransacting which people may use as a meansof seeking strokes for their racket feeling.

• It is a kind of pastime, where the exchangecarry a charge of racket feeling.

• The frequent result is to transform theracketeering exchange into a game.

Activity

• Did you racketeer during the past week?

Stamps

• When I experience a racketfeeling, thee are two things Ican do with it. I can express itthere and then. Or I can storeit away for use after.

• When I do the latter, I am saidto saving a stamp.

• People save stamps because bycashing in the stamps, they canmove towards their scriptpayoff.

Activity

• In the past week, was there anoccasion when you felt a racketfeeling and saving it up insteadof expressing it there and then.

• What name would you give toracket feeling saved on stamp.

• How big is a collection do youhave of this kind of feeling.

• Review your own stampcollection and payoff you mayhave in view when you cash itin.

Racket system

• It was devised by Richard Erskine and MarilynZalcman.

• The racket system is defined as a self reinforcing,distorted system of feelings, thoughts and actionsmaintained by script bound individuals. It hasthree interrelated and interdependentcomponents :– The script, beliefs and feelings.

– The rackety displays and

– The reinforcing memories.

Activity

Think about a recent incident that wasunsatisfactory or painful for you and in whichyou finished up feeling bad.

Begin filling the content in the diagram ofracket system.

Draw a diagram of racket analysis with threecolumns. Updated beliefs and feelings,autonomous displays and reinforcingmemories.

Stay happy