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Know and Change: (A Fast Way to Get into Script Material and Out of It)
Carlo Moiso
Transactional Analysis Journal 1981 11: 324
DOI: 10.1177/036215378101100413

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 Know and Change
(A Fast Way to Get into Script Material and Out of It)
Carlo Moiso

Abstract Now ask yourself: Why am I doing what

Describes two brief fantasies to be I do? ..... Why do I have this feeling?
administered to clients, each to be followed Now come back to this room ..... open
by a short questionnaire. The procedure your eyes ..... and answer in silence the
is designed to afford clients a rapid insight questionnaire I will give you.
into their personal scripts and an aware- Part Two: First Questionnaire
ness of alternatives to these scripts.
When I feel really bad, I think
that I am .
The aim of this workshop is to give to the that others are .
participants a tool to gain an insight into and that in order to live I should .
their script and into a way to get out of it, then what I do is .
and to introduce to therapists a fast way to Hoping to get .
elicit basic information about the relevant and to avoid .
aspects of their patient's script. At the end I feel .
The workshop is structured in five parts: and the reason is because .
1) A guided fantasy into the script.
2) A short questionnaire about this fan- Part Three: Second Fantasy
tasy to be answered on the spot (given to Now I want you to lie comfortably on
the patient). the mattress, with your arms along your
3) A guided fantasy about a script-free body and in contact with your neighbor.
future event. Close your eyes. Imagine yourself in the
4) A second short questionnaire about future, when you are grown, really grown.
this fantasy (given to the patient partici- You are now the prince/princess you
pants). were born to be. You are the person that
5) Discussion of a case. you really want to be. You have straight
ways to have your needs met, and you are
Part One: First Fantasy able to be aware . . . . . spontaneous .....
Take a comfortable position, close your intimate .....
eyes and relax. Take a close look at your actions in this
Imagine yourself in an old situation new situation .....
where things are going badly for you . Observe yourself ..... take other people
and you have bad feelings about that . into the situation and observe yourself
Observe yourself and your actions . making contact with them and how they
Observe the other people involved in the respond to the prince/princess you are now
situation and their actions ..... . . . .. See what you are doing, hear what
Be aware of what you are trying to you are saying and make contact with your
obtain and to avoid through your body awareness ..... Be aware of your
actions . feelings . . . . . now let yourself move gently
Let yourself experience the feelings con- and share now verbally your feeling with
nected with the situation ..... your neighbor . . . . . Let sounds come out.
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 KNOW AND CHANGE

Now come back to this room ..... open and to avoid ~<?rp~~~tj<?~ .
your eyes ..... and answer the question- (Content of discount - Injunctions)
naire I will give to you. at the end I feel. ...s.a.q,.rpj~'!l?-~~~s.t9~?...
Part Four: Second Questionnaire (Racket feeling)
As a prince/princess I think and the reason is because . jt. ~~y<:~ ~.~r~.s ..
that I am . (Script core belief)
that others are . Second Questionnaire
and that in life I can .
what I then do is . As a prince/princess I think
and I get . that I am 1<?y~~~t; .
not needing anymore to avoid . (OK position and belief about self)
At the end I feel . that others are <?p.~~ ..
and the reason is because . (OK position and belief about others)
Part Five and that in life I can .... ~<?':t; ~~~.s.~8!~....
A participant is invited to share with the (Permission)
leader and the group the content of his what I then do is... ~<?1!~~,.~t.a'y'~j~~ 9~~~~s.,
questionnaire. The information that can be l.a.~~~ .
elicited is listed below. (Autonomous and spontaneous behavior
Case Example
= social control contract)
and I get 1<?~s. <?~ ~~r~.I~t;s .
FIRST QUESTIONNAIRE (Free Child need)
When I feel really bad, I think not nee dimg anymore to avoiid .. rr: oeonle
r. ....
that I am ~<?~t!t1<:~S, .l~<?p'~l~~~ . (Acceptance of self/others/situation)
(existential script position and belief about at the end Ifeel. ~a'p'p'y' .
self) (Free child feeling)
that others are . ~<?~q,. ~i.s~~~~,. ~<:rp.a.~4i!1~.. and the reason is because ..... I. ~<?':t; .....
(existential script position and belief about (New decision)
others) Caveat: This second questionnaire might
and that in order to live I should ... be .v.ert elicit an anti- or counterscript response,
careful rather than a way out of the script.
(Parental injunctions and messages -
Decision) Carlo Moiso, MD, CTM, is president of
the Italian Association for Transactional
then what I do is. ~t.ay. ~.~~t;, A<? ?Y. IA~s~1~,. Analysis (AlA T) and training director
(Games - Time and strokes structuring - of the Institute for TA (IA T) in Rome. He
Drivers - Racketeering) has ongoing TA training programs in
. t 0 get
h oping ap,nroval
r . Rome, Milano and Brussels, and leads an
(Adapted Child need and Free Child unmet ongoing TA program for the government
needs - Magic belief) ofCanton Tessien (Switzerland).

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