The document discusses the concept of withdrawal, highlighting that it can occur both physically and psychologically as individuals seek to avoid psychological risks and engage in self-reflection. Withdrawal may stem from learned behaviors, childhood experiences, or the need to retreat into a fantasy world for rejuvenation. Additionally, the document provides links to various related topics in transactional analysis available on SlideShare.

1. Withdrawal

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Withdrawal
• When a person
withdraws, she may
stay with the group
physically, but does not
transact with other
group members.
• During withdrawal, the
only stroke I can get or
give are self strokes.
• They try to avoid
psychological risk of
rejection.

4. Withdrawal
• Withdrawing is sometimes
a rational adult decision.
• People need time to be
alone, to relax, to think
their own thoughts, to
take stock of themselves
and to be rejuvenated in
their individual
humanness.

5. Withdrawal
• Withdrawing is sometimes
based on copying parents.
In this case, person imitates
parental behaviors.
• For example, a man
threatened by conflict with
his wife may withdraw as
his father did when his
mother got mad.

6. Withdrawal
• Withdrawing patterns
also come from child ego
state.
• These are often replays
of a person’s childhood
adaptations out of the
necessity for self
protection from pain or
conflict.
• They may also be the
result of training.

7. Withdrawal
• When a person withdraws
psychologically, it is often
into a fantasy world.
• These fantasies are likely to
be of uncensored pleasure
or violence, creative
imaginings or of learned
fears and catastrophic
expectations.
• Everyone withdraws into
fantasy world from time to
time.

8. Thank You

9. Other TA topics available on slideshare
1. Strokes - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/strokes-24081607.
2. Games People Play - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/psychological-
games-people-play.
3. Structural Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/the-ego-state-model.
4. What is TA? - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/what-ta-is
5. Cycles of Development - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-
developement-pamela-levin-transactional-analysis.
6. Stages of Cure - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stages-of-cure.
7. Transactions - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/transactions-33677298.
8. Time Structuring - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/time-structuring.
9. Life Position - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/life-position.
10. Autonomy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/autonomy-33690557.
11. Structural Pathology - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/structural-pathology.
12. Game Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/game-analysis-33725636.
13. Integrated Adult - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/integrated-adult.
14. Stroke Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stroke-economy-
33826702.