Abstract
This article reviews definitions of counterscript drivers and allowers in terms of the underlying values toward which self-actualizing people may aspire. Thus, the values of being fast, energetic, pleasing, strong, and excellent—as prized qualities of the autonomous individual under the influence of Physis (the generalized creative force of nature, which eternally “strives to make things grow and to make growing things more perfect” [Berne, 1968, p. 89])—are differentiated from the counterscript drivers of “Be perfect,” “Try hard,” “Hurry up,” “Please me,” and “Be strong” under the influence of script.