ABSTRACT
A script is first developed by a child as an imaginative organizing structure that supports his or her development and the evolution of his or her innate potential. Without a script, a child would experience existence in a vacuum of time and space, like a leaf in the wind, rootless, without content to connect the past with the future. Even a script generated under the worst environmental circumstances contains within itself the child's own genetic sense about how he/she might attain fulfilment in life if some malevolent spirits or fairies can be neutralized. Eric Berne and some other therapists sometimes erroneously equated scripts with the determining power of particularly harmful, sub liminal "injunctions" given by pathological care-takers during a person's childhood. Important aspects of Odysseus's original script may have been to be a "resourceful" ruler of Ithaca, have a dog, marry a faithful wife, and raise a fine son to succeed him.
