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Scripts and Permissions: Some Unexamined Assumptions and Connotations

Pages 283-293
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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In the years since Berne's death so many connotations and relatively unexamined assumptions have accrued to key transactional analysis concepts that their original meanings are often obscured. This article examines some of the connotations of script and the biopsychosocial context of permissions and introduces the idea of a matrix of permissions.

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James R. Allen

James R. Allen, M.D., is Vice-President and Medical Director, Children's Medical Center, Tulsa, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Oklahoma. He is a Certified Teaching Member, Instructor and Supervisor.

Barbara Ann Allen

Barbara Ann Allen, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D., is in private practice in Tulsa, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma.