Contamination of Adult

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

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

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Contamination of Adult• The clear thinking of the Adult is

often spoiled by contamination.• Contamination can be thought of

as an intrusion of the Parent ego sate and / or the Child ego state into the boundary of the Adult ego state.

• Contamination occurs when the Adult accepts as true some unfounded Parent beliefs or Child distortions and rationalizes and justifies these attitudes.

I am in parent contamination when I

mistake parental slogans for adult reality.

These are taught beliefs that are taken as

facts. Berne call this prejudice. When a

person is speaking about herself and say

you instead of I, it is likely that the

content of what follows will be parent

contaminated.

• The world is a bad place.

• People cant be trusted.

• If at first you don’t succeed, try,

try, try again.

Parent Contamination

“ The difference between a conviction and

a prejudice is that you can explain a

conviction without getting angry.”

Samuel Butler

• Parental contaminations often

involve considerable emotions and

are likely to occur in relation to

specific subjects such as food,

religion, politics, race, class and

sex.

• At times, large segments of society

agree with prejudiced ideas.

• Contaminations often intrudes on

the laws of society.

Parent Contamination

• Take two minutes to write down all the

slogans and beliefs you remember hearing

from your parents and parental figures.

• Look through you list of parental slogans

and beliefs. Check whether each one is a

statement of reality or a parent

contamination.

• If you decide there are any you want to

update to fit with grown up reality, strike

them out and substitute your new version.

Activity

When I am child contaminated, I cloud my

grown up thinking with beliefs from my

childhood. These are fantasies, evoked by

feelings, that are taken as facts. Berne used the

word delusion to describe the kind of belief

that typically arise from child contamination.

When the content of a child contamination

comes from earlier childhood, the delusion is

likely to be more bizarre.

• People just don’t like me.

• There is something wrong with me.

• I cant stop smoking.

• I was born fat.

Child Contamination

• One for of child contamination is the

delusion of grandeur. In its extreme

form, a person may believe that she or

he is savior of the world or the ruler of

the world.

• Another common delusion is feeling

persecuted – being poisoned, spied

upon or plotted against.

• In its less sever forms, a person whose

Child contaminates the Adult has

distorted perceptions of realities.

Child Contamination

• Take a piece of paper and head it : “ I am the

sort of person who….”

• Take two minutes to write down all the ways

you think of to finish the sentence.

• At the end of two minutes, relax, breathe and

look around the room for a while.

• For each of the ways you finished the

sentence, check whether it is a statement

about reality or a child contamination.

• If you decide any of the statement about

yourself do come from child contamination,

think what the reality of the matter is. Strike

out the child contamination words and put in

the adult updates.

Activity

It occurs when the person replays a

parental slogan, agrees to it with a child

belief, and mistakes both of these for

reality.

• People cant be trusted

paired with

• I can never trust anyone.

• Children should be seen and

not heart

paired with

• To get by in the world, I have to

keep quit.

Double Contamination

Thank You

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