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Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns: Theoretical Integration and Therapeutic Involvement

Pages 207-218
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Eric Berne originally described life scripts as being formed from the primal dramas and implicit protocols of infancy and early childhood. John Bowlby's attachment theory and the supporting research provide a theoretical integration with script theory and suggest the necessity of a developmental focus in psychotherapy. Secure, anxious/ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized, and isolated attachment patterns are described in relation to life scripts and their implications for psychotherapy.

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Richard G. Erskine

Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., is the training director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York. He is the editor of Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns, a book compiling the writings of 14 transactional analysts on script theory and therapeutic methods (published in 2010 by Karnac Books). He may be reached by e-mail at or by phone at 212.734.5291.
 

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