The document discusses the concept of 'driver' in the context of transactional analysis, detailing how it initiates behavior based on internal messages and beliefs. It explains that driver behaviors last briefly and may lead to outcomes that either satisfy or fail to satisfy inner parental expectations. The transition from driver behavior can result in moving to non-scripty behavior or another driver position, influenced by emotional responses and the need for validation.

1. Position 1 : Driver (Mini Script)
Transactional Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Position 1 : Driver
The mini script sequence
always begins with a
driver. As I listen to the
counter script message in
my head, I show the
corresponding driver
behavior. It lasts from
half a second to seven
seconds at the most.

4. Position 1 : Driver
While I am in the driver, I
experience no emotion.
My Adapted child belief is
that I remain OK as long
as I am obeying the
driver.

5. Position 1 : Driver
Two possible outcomes may
follow. I may manage to try
hard enough, hurry up
enough, etc..to satisfy the
demands of my internal
Parent. If so, I end the driver
behavior, I will then move
either into non scripty
behavior or into another
driver.

6. Position 1 : Driver
Alternatively, I may not
summon up enough energy to
fulfill the driver command. I
have not satisfied my internal
parent’s condition for Okness.
With that conditional
protection withdrawn, I now
believe I must listen to the
injunction I had been
guarding against.

7. Position 1 : Driver
On the mini script model, this
is marked by a movement
from the driver (position 1) to
one of the other three
positions. We say that I go
through the driver to the next
position.

8. References

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