ego gram - transactional analysis
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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 DusayTRANSCRIPT
Ego Gram
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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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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