Comments on: The Drama Triangle and How to Escape It http://www.whakate.com/lead-articles/the-drama-triangle-and-how-to-escape-it/ life design matters | Journal & Club Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:31:51 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: WHAKATE http://www.whakate.com/lead-articles/the-drama-triangle-and-how-to-escape-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 WHAKATE Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:55:31 +0000 http://www.whakate.com/?p=1554#comment-1346 Please have a look at the discussion thread on this topic at http://www.whakate.com/forums/life-design/182-transactional-analysis-ta-drama-triangle.html Please have a look at the discussion thread on this topic at http://www.whakate.com/forums/life-design/182-transactional-analysis-ta-drama-triangle.html

]]> By: i. Merey http://www.whakate.com/lead-articles/the-drama-triangle-and-how-to-escape-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 i. Merey Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:44:44 +0000 http://www.whakate.com/?p=1554#comment-1345 Basically, yes (unless the script in your seminar referred directly to the dialogue on the paper!). The Parent, Adult, Child refers to the three states in TA that people consistently use (parent-didactic/child-helpless/adult-capable, mature). Now, depending on their own personal "script" (How they view themselves as people- strong, weak, capable, useless- and how they THINK they should be viewed), they will use different roles with different people. This is a little bit different from the Drama Triangle, but all boils down to "games" we play-- What reaction we hope to get out of the person we are interacting with and whether we stop the triangle (or any game, by responding as Adult.) Hope that answers your question! Basically, yes (unless the script in your seminar referred directly to the dialogue on the paper!).

The Parent, Adult, Child refers to the three states in TA that people consistently use (parent-didactic/child-helpless/adult-capable, mature). Now, depending on their own personal “script” (How they view themselves as people- strong, weak, capable, useless- and how they THINK they should be viewed), they will use different roles with different people.

This is a little bit different from the Drama Triangle, but all boils down to “games” we play– What reaction we hope to get out of the person we are interacting with and whether we stop the triangle (or any game, by responding as Adult.)

Hope that answers your question!

]]> By: Linda http://www.whakate.com/lead-articles/the-drama-triangle-and-how-to-escape-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 Linda Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:48:57 +0000 http://www.whakate.com/?p=1554#comment-1333 Years ago, in a customer service position, the employer offered seminars in Transactional Analysis. The scripts, if that was the term used then, were from a position of Parent, Adult, Child, with the idea that whether someone is communicating as a Parent or Child, to respond as an Adult. Is this the same thing? Years ago, in a customer service position, the employer offered seminars in Transactional Analysis. The scripts, if that was the term used then, were from a position of Parent, Adult, Child, with the idea that whether someone is communicating as a Parent or Child, to respond as an Adult. Is this the same thing?

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