ABSTRACT
The script matrix correlates with the psychodynamic tradition in which the investigation of the genesis of problems and discovering the roots of childhood are important. Richard Erskine states that the script develops at times when there are deficiencies in meaningful relationships, between the child and the parents, but also in the present between partners, colleagues, or friends. The narrative/constructivist perspective on script argues for a conceptualisation of the storytelling and meaning-making functions of life scripts, while challenging the more deterministic aspects of traditional script theories. The story in adolescence is sometimes a tale of protest and sometimes a reconsideration of the potentially harmful or constraining aspects of the script. The formation of script was dependent upon the child's attainment of some self-reflective and language-based capacities of awareness. The script is gradually built up by way of a repeated pattern of transactions which can last throughout one's life.
