Probably more often, decisions are arrived at over a period of time in response to script messages which the child experiences repetitively. Perhaps the infant reaches out to Mother and she turns away from him. He reaches out again and again gets no response.

1. Repetition

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3. Repetition
• Probably more often, decisions
are arrived at over a period of
time in response to script
messages which the child
experiences repetitively.
• Perhaps the infant reaches out to
Mother and she turns away from
him. He reaches out again and
again gets no response.

4. Repetition
• Not until he has done this many
times may he begin to form the
conclusion: “ Mother doesn’t
want me close”.
• The little boy who hear the
attribution “This is the shy one”
may need to hear it repeated for
months and years before deciding
firmly that he is indeed shy.

5. Repetition
• Eric Berne compared the build
up of script messages to a pile
of coins, stacked one on the
other.
• A few coins in the stack are
skewed. The more skewed
ones there are, the more likely
is the whole stack to go off line
and fall over.

6. Repetition
• One badly skewed coin can throw
the stack off true. So can a
number of slightly skewed coins,
particularly if they are all arranged
to lean the stack in one direction.
• This is a graphic picture of the way
in which traumatic events and
repeated messages combine to
form the basis of life scripts.

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