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Rubber band expresses graphically how we respond at times as though we had been catapulted back to early childhood scenes. Imagine a giant rubber band stretching through time. It hooks on to some feature of the present that recalls childhood pain, and twang – off we go into the past.

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Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

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

Mail – [email protected]

Kindly restrict the use of slides for personal purpose. Please seek permission to reproduce the same in public

forms and presentations.

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Rubber band• When I went into script in my argument with the

Director, It wasn’t just because the situation was stressful. It was also that the here and now scene resembled a painful scene from my childhood.

• In TA language, we say that the present situation is a rubber band back to the early situation.

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Rubber band• This expresses graphically how we respond at times as

though we had been catapulted back to early childhood scenes.

• Imagine a giant rubber band stretching through time. It hooks on to some feature of the present that recalls childhood pain, and twang – off we go into the past.

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Rubber band• Because Mother and Father

are such important figures in our early life, they are often to be found at the far end of rubber bands.

• Talking to anyone with whom we relate significantly, we identify them some of the time with figures from the past.

• This phenomenon that Freudians call Transference.

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• In TA, we refer to it

colloquially as “putting a

face on someone”.

• When I went into script in

my argument with the boss,

I was putting my father’s

face on him.

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Rubber bands do not always

stretch back to people. We

can also hook back to

sounds, smells, particular

surroundings or anything

else that reminds us

unawarely of stressful

situations in childhood.

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Rubber band• One of the goals of change in TA is to disconnect the

rubber bands.• Through script understanding and personal therapy, I

can resolve the original trauma and free myself to tackle here and now situation with all the grown up resources at my command.

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Activity• Think of a recent situation in

which you were under stress and which ended unpleasantly or unsuccessfully for you.

• Think what bad feeling you experienced during that situation.

• Now recollect such an incident happened in the past year, then five years back, your teenage, your childhood and go as far as possible.

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Activity• The aim of this exercise is to

trace the far end of the rubber band.

• What was the similarity between the recent experience and your childhood experience.

• If another person was involved in the recent experience, what ‘face’ from the past were you putting on him or her?

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Activity• Once you are aware what post

situation you are replaying,

you can begin disconnecting

the rubber band.

• Use Adult awareness to remind

yourself that people in the

here and now are in fact

different from Father and

others.

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Activity• If you begin experiencing the

bad feeling, be aware that the

present situation is different

from that in the past.

• You now have the resources

and options of a grown up

person, as well as those of the

child you were in the early

scene.

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Thank You

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Other TA topics available on slideshare1. 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-is5. Cycles of Development -

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