Negative strokesTransactional Analysis

Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Negative strokes

• A negative stroke is one experienced as painful.

• If your neighbor had responded to your greetings by frowning at you instead of smiling, he would have given you a negative non – verbal stroke.

Negative strokes

• He could have given you a more intense non verbal by punching your in the eye.

• To deal you a negative verbal stroke, he might have responded to you cheerful “ Nice day” with “huh” or even “ it was until you come along”.

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