For a housewife playing Harried, a little leaflet that comes with child games stating the rules speeds up the evolution of harried, which if not checked may end in a game of “State hospital”. (The last thing I want is to be send to a hospital).

1. State hospital
Transactional Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. State hospital
• For a housewife playing
Harried, a little leaflet that
comes with child games
stating the rules speeds up
the evolution of harried,
which if not checked may
end in a game of “State
hospital”. (The last thing I
want is to be send to a
hospital).

4. Marital Games
• Almost any game can
form the scaffolding for
married life and family
living.
• Some of these games
are tolerated longer,
under the legal force of
contractual intimacy.
• Marital games can only
be arbitrarily separated
from sexual games .

5. Harried
• This is a game played
by the harried house
wife. Her situation
requires that she be
proficient in ten or
twelve different
occupations.

6. Harried
• Since these roles are
usually conflicting and
fatiguing, their
imposition gives rise
in the course of years
to the condition
symbolically known as
“ Housewife’s knee”,
whose symptoms are
succinctly summarized
in the complaint “ I
am tired”.

7. Harried
• The thesis of this game
is that she takes on
everything that comes
and even asks for more.
She agrees with her
husband’s criticisms
and accepts all her
children’s demands.

8. Harried
• The antithesis to this
game is simple : She can
fill each of her role in
succession during the
week, but she must
refuse to play two or
more of them
simultaneously.

9. Harried
• It is necessary to recognize
that the real culprit is the
wife’s parent, her mother
or grand mother. The
therapist has to fight this
parent and also the social
environment which
encourages the wife’s
compliance.

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