ABSTRACT
If you decide to draw up a script (racket) system (Erskine and Zalcman, 1979; Erskine et al., 1999) with your client, or to share with your client a script system diagram which you have compiled from information they have previously given you, it is important to broach the subject sensitively and carefully. In describing the script system to clients, I often use the phrase `circuit boards'. This is language that most people can understand, and is a way of viewing the problematic experience which brought the client to therapy in a way which is often particularly appealing to men, or `technically minded' clients. Compiling a script system gives a quick snapshot of the dynamics of a person's symptoms (including somatic experiences), contaminations and core script beliefs together with their associated memory bank.
