Abstract
Script theory, on careful examination, has become restrictive, simplistic, and inaccurate. The author connects Berne's narrow deterministic view of scripts to his erroneous view of games. Existential Pattern Therapy (EPT) (English, 1987), the author's own form of script analysis emphasizing creativity and the balance of unconscious drives, is described. A case presentation using EPT is discussed following which an evaluation of the relationship between unconscious drives (survival, creative, restful), stroke economy, and the ego states concludes the analysis.