Life Script Theory
A Critical Review from a Developmental Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20177519 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William F Cornell (0000-0002-5817-6338, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 270-282 |
| Publication date | 1988-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036215378801800402 |
| OpenAlex | W2530785767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 81 |
| References cited | 10 |
Script theory is examined and expanded from the perspective of contemporary developmental research and theory. Each major script theorist is reviewed and critiqued. Script, as a comprehensive theory presented in most of the TA literature, is found to be overly reductionistic and insufficiently attentive to the formative factors in healthy psychological development
Cognitive science · Development theory · Developmental stage theories · Epistemology · Formative assessment · Psychoanalysis · Reductionism · Sociology · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Ego Development and Educational Practices · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Philosophy · Psychology
Reexamining Social Psychiatry as a Foundational Framework for Transactional Analysis
Learning Scripts as Information for How We Learn and Teach
“Normally I’d get really agitated, but I just laughed!”
Jewish Secular-Believer Women in Israel
Dreams as Markers of Change
When Relief Replaces Loss
Inside Out
Parents Who are Orphans
Humachina
The Organizing Matrix in the Evolution of Script
Embodied Trauma
Physis in Transactional Analysis
Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns
Being a Transactional Analysis Child Therapist
An Analysis of Nonverbal Transactions Drawing on Theories of Intersubjectivity
Positive Psychology and Transactional Analysis
Is It God Who Cures? A Transpersonal Perspective on Script Formation, the Role of Physis, and the “Soul Work” of the Therapeutic Process
Nonconscious Processes and Self-Development
Keeping Our Balance
Transactional Analysis Supervision or Supervision Analyzed Transactionally
Transactional Analysis as a Social Psychology
Traversing the Fault Lines
Reciprocity in Script Formation
Falling Apart and Getting It Together
Berne's Transactional Analysis as a Neo-Freudian/Neo-Adlerian Perspective
The Contributions of Transactional Analysis to Integrative Psychotherapy
Down to Our Mythical Roots
Berne's Script Types and Chinese Myths
With You and Me in Mind
Scripts and Permissions
Intuition of the Possible and the Transactional Creation of Realities
Life Scripts
Integrating Genograms and Script Matrices
Script Theory Synthesized Systemically
Growing Well
Forced Migration and Refugees
A Chance to Thrive
Game Analysis and Racket Analysis
Scripts and Entrepreneurship
Being White
Transactional Analysis Counseling Groups
Time Changing
Bipolar Dynamics of Vitality
The Quality of the Therapeutic Relationship as a Factor in Helping to Change the Client's Protocol or Implicit Memory
Listening to Intuition
Concepts of Transference
Fairy Tales and Psychological Life Plans
Analyzing the Impact of Prior Psychotherapy on a Patient's Script
Story Options
The Health System
Love Addiction
A Transactional Analysis Approach to Adjustment Problems of Adolescents from Immigrant Families
“Whatever!” The Wonderful Possibilities of Adolescence
Keeping Our Work Alive
The Experience of Anxiety in Body and Mind
Transactional Analysis and Spiral Dynamics
An Ethnopsychiatric Approach to Healing Trauma in Involuntary Immigrants and Torture Victims
Therapeutic Operations Can Be Educational Operations Too
Freedom with Responsibility
Beyond Symbiosis
Stroking
Reflections on Cocreative Transactional Analysis
Thinking, Theory, and Experience in the Helping Professions
Cocreative Transactional Analysis
Ego States as Living Links between past and Current Experiences
Beyond Script Destiny
Criteria for Defining the Boundaries of Transactional Analysis Fields of Application
Avoidance, Vicious Cycles, and Experiential Disconfirmation of Script
Siblings, Aggression, and Sexuality
Shame and Self-Righteousness
Whither Scripts
Changing the Focus
The Evolution of Perspectives on Transference in Relation to Transactional Analysis
Intersubjective Discoveries on Parenting Autistic Sons
Ego States and the Self-Concept
A Contemporary Perspective on Transactional Analysis Group Therapy
Script, Psychological Life Plans, and the Learning Cycle
Constructivist and Neuroconstructivist Transactional Analysis
Developing a Coherent Map of Transactional Analysis Theories
Aspiration or Adaptation
Trauma and Migration
| Unique citing works | 81 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |