Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis Of Life Scripts

✍ Scribed by Claude Steiner

• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A "stimulating and thought-provoking" guide to help you make productive and autonomous choices toward rewriting your life (Los Angeles Times).

We choose a "life script" at an early age. But you can change its course. Whether born into wealth or poverty, into nurturing families or damaged abusers, fostered by strict parents or careless and undisciplined ones, each individual still has a spiritual core that exists independent of the environment and is equally crucial to his or her destiny.

Countering the fundamental principle of psychiatry which asserts that emotional and mental distress comes from within, Claude Steiner believes that people are innately healthy but develop a pattern early in life based upon negative or positive influences of those around them. Those influences can rule every detail of our lives until our death. Thus children decide, however unconsciously, whether they will be happy or depressed, winners or failures,...