Not Overthinking The Parent, The Adult and The Child - A Discussion of Transactional Analysis
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May 3, 2020 AI Snips
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Three Ego States Explained
- Transactional Analysis splits the self into three ego states: Parent, Adult, and Child.
- This simple model helps explain why we react non-rationally and patterns repeat across interactions.
Parent Is A Tape Recorder
- The Parent stores unedited recordings from early childhood: tones, rules and reactions from authority figures.
- Those recordings can control adult feelings even when we consciously reject them.
Hat Rule Passed Down
- A patient avoided hats on tables because her mother's strict rule came from a grandparent's disease-fear story.
- She kept the rule without understanding its original context until asked to reflect.