ABSTRACT
Some traditional views of Transactional Analysis (TA) consider the process of scripting to be complete by the time a person is in late childhood. Berne's own view on this was that scripting was largely complete by around 7 years old and in his last book he defined script as ‘An unconscious life plan, made in childhood, reinforced by the parents, justified by subsequent events and culminating in a chosen alternative’. Various TA authors have questioned the inflexible and fixed view of script and have added in such definitions as: ‘A life plan based on decisions made at any developmental stage which inhibit spontaneity and limit flexibility in problem solving and in relating to people’. Thus, more recent theories regarding script acknowledge the primary role of early experiences in the formation of the self but also allow room for considering script as an ongoing developmental process.
