Position 2 : Stopper (Mini Script)Transactional Analysis

Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Position 2 : Stopper

Suppose that as an infant, I

made the combined decision

“ I am OK to belong, so long

as I am perfect”. Imagine I am

at a party. As I talk to the

group around me, I move in

and out of my be perfect

driver.

Position 2 : Stopper

Eventually, I run low on the

energy I have been using to

keep on getting things right.

May be I slip and stumble over

some words or say something

that people laugh at.

Position 2 : Stopper

I now go through the Be

Perfect driver. Internally, I

judge myself: “ I have not

managed to be perfect. So I

am not OK. Anybody like me,

who gets things wrong, can’t

possibly belong to this group.”

Position 2 : Stopper

As I re-run my early

decision not to belong, I

feel again the sense of

inadequacy that I first felt

at the time I made this

decision in the childhood.

Position 2 : StopperIn the language of the

miniscript, the injunction I

hear when I go through my

driver to position 2 is called a

stopper. It may be any of the

twelve injunctions, depending

on the unique content of my

own script. The term stopper

is also used to describe

position 2 itself.

Position 2 : Stopper

As I shift from driver to

stopper, I change life

position. Instead of the

driver’s “ I am Ok if …”, I

now move to “ I am not

OK, you are OK.”

Position 2 : StopperReplaying the early

childhood decision I

made around the

injunction, I also re-

experience a bad feeling

from my childhood – a

racket feeling.

Position 2 : Stopper

The specific racket feeling

I feel will depend on the

content of my own script.

All the racket feelings at

position 2 will reflect the

I-U+ life position.

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