always script - transactional analysis
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The person with an Always script asks : “Why does this always happen to me?”. The Greek myth for Always is that of Arachne, who was good at embroidery. She was unwise enough to challenge the goddess Minerva to an embroidering contest. The outraged deity changed Arachne into a spider, condemned to spin her web fall all eternity.TRANSCRIPT
Always Script
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Always ScriptThe person with an Always script asks : “Why does this always happen to me?”. The Greek myth for Always is that of Arachne, who was good at embroidery. She was unwise enough to challenge the goddess Minerva to an embroidering contest. The outraged deity changed Arachne into a spider, condemned to spin her web fall all eternity.
Always ScriptMartha knows the always pattern: She has been married three times and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to a man who was quiet, retiring and not very sociable. Martha broke with him, she told her friends, because she really wanted someone more dynamic.
Always ScriptBut to the surprise of those same friends, she was soon announcing her engagement to another man who seemed to them like a carbon copy of the first one. That marriage didn’t last long either. Martha’s third husband is retiring ,quiet and not very dynamic and she has already complaining to her friends about him.
Always ScriptPeople with the Always
pattern may play it out like
Martha, by going from one
unsatisfactory relationship,
job or locality to another. A
variant is to stay with the
original unsatisfactory choice
instead of moving on to a
better one.
Always Script
The person with an Always
script may say : “ I have
not got much out of
working with this
therapist. But, well, I
suppose, I will keep on and
just hope we get
somewhere.”
Always ScriptMartha often uses a sentence pattern which typically accompanies an Always script. She begins the sentence, then goes off on a tangent. She switches to another tangent and goes off on that one, and so on. “Well, what I have cone to see you for is….. Huh, when I was on the way here I saw my friend and she …. Oh, by the way, I have got some money with me and…”.
Almost ScriptSisyphus was another character to fall foul of the touchy Greek gods. He was condemned to spend eternity pushing a huge rock up a hill. Every time he almost got to the top, he lost his grip on the rock and it rolled all the way down to the bottom again. Like Sisyphus, the modern day person with an Almost script says: “ I almost made it this time.”
References
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