We have emphasized that a parent’s injunction cannot make the child write her script in a particular way. It is the child who decides what to do with the injunction she receives.

1. How decisions relate to injunctions?

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3. How decisions relate to injunctions?
We have emphasized
that a parent’s injunction
cannot make the child
write her script in a
particular way. It is the
child who decides what
to do with the injunction
she receives.

4. How decisions relate to injunctions?
One child may accept an
injunction as it stands.
Another may modify it
ingeniously to ease its
impact. Still another may
simply refuse to accept
the injunction at all.

5. How decisions relate to injunctions?
Another possibility is that
the child may make a
magical early decision to
shift the impact of Don’t
exist by deciding to kill
someone else instead of
killing himself. This results
in a harmatic script in
which the payoff is
homicide instead of
suicide.

6. How decisions relate to injunctions?
Alternatively, the magical
belief may be of the form
: “If I can stop existing as
a sane person, maybe I
wont actually have to
die.” This gives the script
the harmatic payoff of
“go crazy”.

7. How decisions relate to injunctions?
At the other extreme from
these tragic decisions, the
infant may already be able to
realize: “ This message is my
mother’s problem, not
mine” and thus reject the
don’t exist injunction
altogether.

8. How decisions relate to injunctions?
Children who do this may, in
the Gouldings words,
“…become little psychiatrists
or priests, as they study the
family and attempt to cure
it, while saving their own
lives by recognizing the
pathology is not of their
doing.”

9. How decisions relate to injunctions?
The child always have the
option of turning an
injunction around in this way
to create positive instead of
negative outcomes. For
instance, a little boy who
gets “ Don’t be the sex you
are” may grow into a man
rich in positive qualities that
are conventionally pictured
as feminine – sensitivity,
physical warmth, openness
to feelings.

10. How decisions relate to injunctions?
Another way to avoiding
the impact of injunctions is
to make compound
decisions. This means that
the child uses little
professor ingenuity in
combining different script
messages, with the
objective of staying alive
and getting her needs met
as well as she can.

11. How decisions relate to injunctions?
These compound
decisions come up
frequently in script
analysis, and are
important in
understanding how the
script works. Practical
experience suggests that
Don’t exist is the
message most often
defended against.

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