2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Injunctions
But instead, the Child in the mother may feel: “This is
dangerous. Now this new baby is getting all the attention.
When am I going to get attention?” Being scared and
furious, her child ego state may want to reject the bay or
even kill him.
4. Injunctions
She may not be having the
slightest awareness of
these feelings. In her own
consciousness and to any
outside observer, she is
loving and caring mother.
But the baby knows it.
With his acute awareness
of non verbal clues, he
picks up mother’s scare
and anger.
5. Injunctions
Little by little, he may form the
conclusion, without words: “
Mother doesn’t want me close to
her. In fact, she would rather be
happy if I weren’t around at all.”
These negative messages from
the parent’s Child are examples of
injunctions. In this case, the
injunctions are don’t exist and
don’t be close.
6. Injunctions
As grownups, we each carry around
a set of injunctions and
permissions, filed away in the
content of our child ego state. The
decision we made in response to
these messages are the principal
foundations of our life script. This
whole complex injunctions and
permissions, plus the definition
made upon them by the child, is
sometimes called the script proper.
