TA in Pills 1-8.6 TA Script Theory 6 - Scripts and their Types - 3
TA Script Theory 6 (Script is a self authored life plan written in early childhood. It governs the general course of a person's life. It is 'directed' to achieve a life goal or script payoff. ) "Words with special meaning are marked * in text and explained in Notes" Scripts and their Types -3 This is what Claude Steiner has to say about Script Theory**: Script theory is a decision theory. Script theory is based on the belief that people make conscious life plans in childhood or early adolescence which influence and make predictable the rest of their lives. Persons whose lives are based on such decisions are said to have scripts. Scripts have an onset, a course, and an outcome. . . . . . . Tragic life scripts such as suicide, drug addiction, schizophrenia, acute depression are reversible because they are generated by script and not a result of disease. Claude Steiner classifies scripts as being loveless, mindless and joyless. These scripts are generate...