Child Contamination

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

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

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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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

Thank You

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