The document discusses the relationship between a person's frame of reference and their script. It states that the script is comprised of the definitions within a person's frame of reference that involve discounts. When a person acts according to their script, they are ignoring the present situation and replaying outdated self-definitions and worldviews from the past that discount aspects of themselves or others. The document provides the example of how a person may replay an old parental message that they cannot think when facing an examination.

1. Frame of reference and the script
Transactional Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Frame of reference and the script
• What is the relationship
between the script and
the frame of reference?
The answer is that the
script forms part of the
frame of reference.

4. Frame of reference and the script
• The frame of reference in
total is made up of a
large number of
definitions. Some of
these definitions will
entail discounts, while
others will not.

5. Frame of reference and the script
• The script consists of all
the definitions in the
frame of reference
which entails discounts.

6. Frame of reference and the script
• When I get into script, I
am ignoring the features
of the here and now
situation which would be
relevant to the solution
of a problem. I am
discounting.

7. Frame of reference and the script
• In doing so, I am
replaying outdated
definitions of myself,
others and the world
which include these
discounts.

8. Frame of reference and the script
• For instance, as a child I
may have received
messages from my
parents telling me I was
not able to think.

9. Frame of reference and the script
• Now suppose that as a
grown up, I am about to
take an examination. If I
get into script at this point,
I begin internally replaying
the old parental definition
of myself that says : “You
cant think”.

10. Frame of reference and the script
• Agreeing with this in my
child ego state, I accept
the discount of my own
thinking ability. I begin to
feel inadequate and
confused.

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