Consulting Room Games

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

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

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Consulting Room Games• Games that are

tenaciously placed in the therapeutic situations are the most important ones for the professional analyst to be aware of.

• They can be most readily studies first hand in the consulting room.

Greenhouse• Recent graduates

present a so called genuine feelings to the group.

• The reactions of the other members are received very solemnly.

• A questioning intervention by the therapist may be strongly resented.

I’M Only Trying To Help You• Therapist gives some

advice to the client. He returns and reports that the suggestions did not have the desired outcome.

• The therapist shrugs off this failure with a feeling of resignation and tries again.

• One day, he cries out in rage “ But I was only trying to help you!”.

Indigence• Indigents go from

agency to agency seeking welfare funds.

• Even though they are supposed to look for other jobs, they devote actually little time for it and tend to remain in their current position.

• Antithesis consists in withholding the benefits.

Peasant• Socially, peasant is

played in an innocent and a dissembled form, both with the motto “Gee You are wonderful, Mr. Murgatroyd”.

• The antithesis for the game is that therapist steadfastly refuses to give advice.

Psychiatry• The patient carefully

picks up weak psychoanalysts, moving from one to another, demonstrating that they cannot be cured and meanwhile learning to play a sharper and sharper game of psychiatry.

• The antithesis is the view point that “I treat them, but God cures them”.

Stupid• In its milder form, the

thesis of “Stupid “ is “ I laugh with you at my own clumsiness and stupidity”.

• Seriously disturbed people may play it in a sullen way which says “ I am stupid, that is the way I am, so do me something.”

Wooden Leg• The thesis for wooden

leg is “What do you expect of a man with a wooden leg?”

• The person with real, exaggerated or imaginary disability is content with his lot and never tries to rise above his disability.

Thank You

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 -

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.