The document discusses the practical application of ego state diagnosis, emphasizing the importance of behavioral diagnosis in various contexts such as organizations and personal relationships. It outlines activities to improve one’s effectiveness in recognizing ego states, including self-analysis and monitoring others during communication. The author encourages ongoing refinement of diagnostic skills through practice and seeking feedback.

1. Ego state diagnosis in practice

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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3. Ego state diagnosis in practice
• Ideally, we would use
all four ways of
diagnosis.
• But in practice, this is
often impossible.
• When it is, we simply
diagnose as best we
can.

4. Ego state diagnosis in practice
When we use TA in work
with organizations,
education or
communication training, or
simply to help our own
everyday relations with
others, we need to rely
mainly on behavioral
diagnosis.

5. Ego state diagnosis in practice
• Social diagnosis gives
us some backup.
• Even in TA therapy,
behavioral diagnosis is
the first and most
important way of
recognizing ego states.

6. Activity
• To develop your effectiveness
in using TA, practice
continually refining your
behavioral diagnosis,
• Keep referring back to the
table of ego state clues you
have made out for yourself,
revising it as you become
more and more aware of your
own ego state shifts.

7. Activity
• If you have the equipment,
make audio tapes or video
tapes of yourself.
• Analyze your ego states clues
second by second.
• Relate your changes in words,
voice tone and body signals if
you have video, to what you
were experiencing internally.

8. Activity
• Get into the habit of doing
behavioral analysis when you
are communicating with
others.
• Do it when you are in
meetings or classes.
• Do it when you are talking
with your spouse, your boss,
your employee.
• Keep track of other person’s
ego state shifts and your own.
• This may feel awkward at first.
• Persist until it becomes
second nature.

9. Activity
• Take every available
chance to check your
behavioral diagnosis
against historical and
phenomenological
evidence.
• But only do this with
others if you have their
explicit agreement in
advance.
• The more often you check
in this way, the more
accurate will your
behavioral diagnosis
become.

10. Thank You

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