ABSTRACT
The script system was designed to provide a way to analyze how the script is active in life today. Rather than taking an historical perspective, the script system identifies how the decisions, conclusions, reactions, and/or introjections are unconsciously expressed in life as core beliefs, overt behaviors, fantasies and obsessions, internal physical sensations, and reinforcing memories. The script system categorizes human experience into four primary components: script beliefs; behavioral, fantasy, and physiological manifestations; reinforcing experiences; and the intrapsychic process of repressed needs and feelings. Fantasies act within the script system exactly as though they were events that had actually occurred. An understanding of how fantasy reinforces script beliefs is particularly useful to psychotherapists in organizing the psychotherapy for clients who engage in obsession, habitual worry, and fantasies of abandonment, persecution, or grandeur. A cybernetic system such as the script system is made up of “a set of components or parts that interact to form an organized whole”.
