Suppose that as an infant, I made the combined decision “ I am OK to belong, so long as I am perfect”. Imagine I am at a party. As I talk to the group around me, I move in and out of my be perfect driver.

1. Position 2 : Stopper (Mini Script)
Transactional Analysis

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Manu Melwin Joy
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Ilahia School of Management Studies
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3. Position 2 : Stopper
Suppose that as an infant, I
made the combined decision
“ I am OK to belong, so long
as I am perfect”. Imagine I am
at a party. As I talk to the
group around me, I move in
and out of my be perfect
driver.

4. Position 2 : Stopper
Eventually, I run low on the
energy I have been using to
keep on getting things right.
May be I slip and stumble over
some words or say something
that people laugh at.

5. Position 2 : Stopper
I now go through the Be
Perfect driver. Internally, I
judge myself: “ I have not
managed to be perfect. So I
am not OK. Anybody like me,
who gets things wrong, can’t
possibly belong to this group.”

6. Position 2 : Stopper
As I re-run my early
decision not to belong, I
feel again the sense of
inadequacy that I first felt
at the time I made this
decision in the childhood.

7. Position 2 : Stopper
In the language of the
miniscript, the injunction I
hear when I go through my
driver to position 2 is called a
stopper. It may be any of the
twelve injunctions, depending
on the unique content of my
own script. The term stopper
is also used to describe
position 2 itself.

8. Position 2 : Stopper
As I shift from driver to
stopper, I change life
position. Instead of the
driver’s “ I am Ok if …”, I
now move to “ I am not
OK, you are OK.”

9. Position 2 : Stopper
Replaying the early
childhood decision I
made around the
injunction, I also re-
experience a bad feeling
from my childhood – a
racket feeling.

10. Position 2 : Stopper
The specific racket feeling
I feel will depend on the
content of my own script.
All the racket feelings at
position 2 will reflect the
I-U+ life position.

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