Beyond Script Destiny

Chance and Circumstance in the Life Course

Bibliographic Data

ID20177812
AuthorsLeonard P Campos (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume40
Issue3-4
Pages278-287
Publication date2010-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/036215371004000312
OpenAlexW2321447021
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This article aims to contribute to the development of Berne's psychology of human destiny, going beyond what Berne (1972) referred to as “script destiny.” The author draws a distinction between the life script and the life course, with the latter including influences of chance and circumstance on life outcomes. These influences include being born into a particular culture, gender, sexual orientation, and racial/ethnic identity as well as into differences of social class, economic status, and family educational levels. Against a backdrop of what he perceives as a risk society, the author proposes that many clients' life outcomes can be related to such unscripted influences of fortune and misfortune, social advantage and disadvantage, chance encounters, and the effects of differences in risk perception. In relating these to issues of assessment and intervention, he highlights the role of choice in, and responsibility for, life outcomes when integrated with the essential roles that chance, circumstance, and risk play in the process of change

Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Ethnic group · Life chances · Life course approach · Misfortune · Political science · Social class · Sociology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Law · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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