Kristiyan Topchkov published this transcript in Michele Novellino’s Berne’s Seminars: The Practice of Transactional Analysis.
It showcases decontamination and deconfusion techniques in therapy.
The patient, a 23-year-old student with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, struggles with relationships. His transactional analysis profile includes a “Until” script and psychological games like “Yes, but…”. In the session, the
therapist challenges his belief that love means telepathic understanding, using confrontation and specification to break self-defeating patterns.
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In this article, Kristiyan Topchkov analyses the phenomena of script injunctions, adding a new distinction between injunctions and an injunction named “Don’t Develop” that aims to understand better the development of psychotic states
and the new therapeutic intervention called “Scanning”. Injunctions are pre-verbal
parts of the script that the child develops in relation
to the primary caregivers while the script is `An unconscious life plan, made in childhood, reinforced by the parents, justified by subsequent events and culminating in a chosen alternative’ (Berne,1972, p. 445).
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