At this second stage, the person still maintains Adult as the ego state in charge of the process. However, now she goes on to address some of the problematic content of Child or Parent ego state directly.

1. Symptomatic Relief
Stages of Cure

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3. Cure according to Berne
• Cure is a progressive process
than a once off process.
• Cure is a matter of progressively
learning to exercise new
choices.
• The client will likely pass
through a series of stages of
improvement, distinct in their
nature although the boundaries
between them might not be
sharply recognizable.

4. Cure according to Berne
• Each stage represented a
genuine gain as compared
to the one before it.
• Therapist and client might
agree to terminate
treatment at any one of
these way stages if the
client found it satisfactory.
• However, only the last
stage represented the
most fundamental degree
of change in the client.

5. Stages of cure
1. Social control
2. Symptomatic relief
3. Transference cure
4. Script cure

6. Stage 2 – Symptomatic Relief
• At this second stage, the
person still maintains Adult
as the ego state in charge of
the process.
• However, now she goes on to
address some of the
problematic content of Child
or Parent ego state directly.

7. Stage 2 – Symptomatic Relief
• For example, she may reopen and express some
of the unfinished feeling she is still carrying from
moments of childhood trauma, always
monitoring from the Adult ego state.
• In consultation with the psychotherapist, she
may reappraise outdated beliefs that have
accompanied these child feelings and decide to
replace these beliefs with others that are more
appropriate to her grown up situation.
• These changes in feeling and belief serve to
reinforce, and are reinforced by , the changes in
behavior she has made at the first stage of cure.

8. Stage 2 – Symptomatic Relief
• Often, this process is accompanied by
some relief in psychic or physical
symptoms such as anxiety or muscular
tension. Reports of these are thus one
objective indication of this stage of cure.
• The observer may also note changes in
the person’s posture and muscle tone. A
decrease in the frequency and intensity
of game playing will provide still another
clue to this stage of cure.

9. Thank You

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