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Pages 294-303
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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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.

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Fanita English

Fanita English, M.S.W., is a Certified Teaching Member Instructor and Supervisor in the ITAA who spends much of her time teaching and training in Europe. She is the recipient of the 1978 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award for her work on rackets.
 

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