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Pages 216-222
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article is based on the premise that the field of education in general and educational transactional analysis in particular are geared toward prevention rather than cure. The author describes how fairy tales provide children with different relationship models, and it proposes a positive triangle of social roles in contrast to Karpman's (1968) drama triangle, which is based on life scripts and focuses on negative psychological roles. Depending on whether they are supported by a positive life position or not, social roles can lead to either personal growth and autonomy or negative scripty outcomes.

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Agnès Le Guernic

Agnès Le Guernic is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analysis in the education field. She practices, teaches, and writes about transactional analysis in Paris, France. She trained teachers for 4 years and was a primary school inspector. Now retired, she is preparing a book on transactional analysis and fairy tales showing how fairy tales and animal stories nourish children's imagination and give them material to use in building up their life plan.
 

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