State hospital Transactional Analysis

Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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State hospital• For a housewife playing

Harried, a little leaflet that

comes with child games

stating the rules speeds up

the evolution of harried,

which if not checked may end

in a game of “State hospital”.

(The last thing I want is to be

send to a hospital).

Marital Games• Almost any game can

form the scaffolding for married life and family living.

• Some of these games are tolerated longer, under the legal force of contractual intimacy.

• Marital games can only be arbitrarily separated from sexual games .

Harried

• This is a game played

by the harried house

wife. Her situation

requires that she be

proficient in ten or

twelve different

occupations.

Harried• Since these roles are

usually conflicting and fatiguing, their imposition gives rise in the course of years to the condition symbolically known as “ Housewife’s knee”, whose symptoms are succinctly summarized in the complaint “ I am tired”.

Harried• The thesis of this game

is that she takes on

everything that comes

and even asks for more.

She agrees with her

husband’s criticisms and

accepts all her children’s

demands.

Harried

• The antithesis to this

game is simple : She can

fill each of her role in

succession during the

week, but she must

refuse to play two or

more of them

simultaneously.

Harried• It is necessary to recognize

that the real culprit is the

wife’s parent, her mother

or grand mother. The

therapist has to fight this

parent and also the social

environment which

encourages the wife’s

compliance.

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