As infants, we know this instinctively. For almost all of us, in early childhood, there were times when we experienced not getting the positive strokes we needed or wanted.

1. Stroke Deficit
Transactional Analysis

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Manu Melwin Joy
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Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. No strokes
• You might imagine that
people would always
seek positive strokes and
avoid negative strokes.

4. No strokes
• But in reality, we work by
a different principle : Any
kind of stroke is better
than no stroke at all.

5. Stroke Deficit
• As infants, we know this
instinctively. For almost
all of us, in early
childhood, there were
times when we
experienced not getting
the positive strokes we
needed or wanted.

6. Stroke Deficit
• At such times, we
figured out ways to
get negatives
strokes. Painful as
they were, we
preferred them to
the dreaded
alternative of being,
left stroke deprived.

7. Stroke Deficit
• In grown up life, we
may replay this infant
patterns, and
continue to seek out
negative strokes.
• This is the source of
some behaviors that
seems on the fact of
it to be self
punishing.

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