ego gram - transactional analysis

Ego Gram

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Ego Gram

• Ego gram is an intuitive way of showing how important is each of the functional ego state parts in your personality.

• This was devised by Jack Dusay.

Ego Gram

• To make an ego gram, you begin by drawing

a horizontal line.

• Label it along its length with the names of

the five main functional ego state parts.

Ego Gram

• To save spelling them

out in full, use their

initial letters.

• Thus, Controlling

Parent becomes CP,

Free child becomes FC,

and so on.

Ego Gram

• The idea is to draw a

vertical bar above each

ego state label.

• The height of the bar

shows how much of

the time you use that

functional part.

Ego Gram

• Start with the part you judge you

use most, and draw its vertical

bar.

• Next, take the part you think you

use least and draw its bar.

• Make the relative heights of the

two bars fit your intuitive

judgment of the relative amounts

of time you spend it each part.

Ego Gram

• The exact height of each

bar is not important.

• What matters is the

relative height of each

bar as compared to the

others.

Ego Gram

• Jack Dusay did not suggest to

dividing up the bars into

positive and negative parts.

• Bit it can be interesting to do so.

• You can shade it in a part of the

bars of CP, NP, FC and AC to

show “negative”.

• This leaves the rest of the bar

showing positive.

ego gram is an intuitive way of showing the functional ego state parts in our personality.

Constancy Hypothesis

• Jack Dusay suggested a constancy hypothesis.

“ When one ego state increases in intensity,

another or others must decrease in order to

compensate. The shift in psychic energy occurs

so that the total amount of energy may remain

constant.”

Constancy Hypothesis

• The best way to change my

ego gram, says Dusay, is to

set about raising the part I

want to have more of.

• When I do so, energy will

automatically shift out of

other parts I want to have

relatively less of.

Constancy Hypothesis• Suppose I look at my ego gram and

decide I would like to be more in

Nurturing Parent and less in

Controlling Parent, I begin

practicing more in Nurturing

Parent Behaviors.

• Perhaps I offer someone a back

rub once each day or at work I

experiment with making open

offers of guidance instead of

ordering people to do things.

Constancy Hypothesis• I don’t make any attempt

to cut down my Controlling

Parent behavior.

• By the constancy

Hypothesis, I can expect

this will go down anyway

as I put more energy into

Nurturing Parent.

Activity

• Is there anything you

want to change about

your ego gram?

• If there is, decide which

bar you need to raise to

achieve this change.

Activity

• List at least five new

behaviors which you can

practice to increase this

ego state part.

• Make a point of doing

these behaviors in the

week following.

Activity

• Then re-draw your ego

gram

• If possible, get a re-

drawn ego gram from the

person who knows you

well.

• Does your new ego gram

fit constancy hypothesis

Thank You

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