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OK Interrupting—Liberation from Deadly Conversations and Deadly Scripts

Pages 145-147
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author presents the view that the Parent message, “Don't interrupt,” inhibits spontaneous and intimate conversation. In addition, people who have grown up with certain early injunctions are helped to change behaviors and then script by learning the “whens and hows” of direct OK interrupting. Examples of ineffective and effective interrupting are given.

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Valerie Lankford

Valerie Lankford, M.A., a Certified Transactional Analyst Instructor and Supervisor, is in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.