From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
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Parent, adult, child
From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
Parent, adult, child
- So the first assertiveness theory that I want to tell you about is parent, adult and child. And this is really the heart of a subject called transactional analysis, which is about trying to understand how people interact. Eric Berne developed this in the late 1950s. He was a psychotherapist and he first thought of this apparently when he was giving somebody therapy, they were on his couch and they said, "When I come to see you, I feel like a child, I feel like I'm talking to my father." And he thought that's interesting. We all have a child component. So he developed this idea that we all have a bit of child within us, a bit of adult within us and a bit of parent. And we all have all three of those but in varying amounts. We all start off in child mode and some people never really get beyond that. And they just stay quite childlike for their whole life. For some reason, I'm thinking of Homer Simpson here.…
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