ABSTRACT
This kind of interchange will be familiar to most transactional analysts, either as supervisors or as supervisees. Yet the supervisee's response is incomplete, and doesn't actually answer the question. A driver is a functional, behavioural manifestation of a counterscript (Stewart and Joines, 1987). To list a driver as the counterscript is therefore providing only a partial, behavioural diagnosis. Drivers are also more or less culturally embedded in that they are all behaviours which are present and stroked to some degree in most (western) cultures, and as such, each driver will be more or less present for everyone. `[A]nalysis of a person's counterscript can give some important information regarding the client's scripting process, to reduce this to a cluster of ®ve behaviour patterns is reductive and restrictive' (Tudor and Widdowson, 2008: 222).
