Falling Apart and Getting It Together

The Dialectics of Disintegration and Integration in Script Change and Self-Development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20178686
AutoresJo Stuthridge (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume47
Fascículo1
Páginas19-31
Data de publicação2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTransactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/0362153716681029
OpenAlexW2555808040
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas15

This article views script as a dynamic process of attributing meaning to experience throughout life. It proposes that script change occurs through a dialectical tension between destabilization and integration within the psyche. Breakdown is seen as essential to growth. This process of “story-making and story-breaking” (Holmes, 2001, p. 87) ultimately generates an awareness of the self as author of one’s reality. Two client vignettes describe the author’s experience with a gradual and more sudden experience of script breakdown. These accounts illustrate how a relational approach to psychotherapy can facilitate the disintegration of a static script through an encounter with a separate subject. This process involves client and therapist in an intimate process: falling apart and getting it together. The discussion navigates a broader theme of script and intimacy, which lies at the heart of transactional analysis theory

Dialectic · Epistemology · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Transactional analysis · Computer Science · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy