Incongruity
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Incongruity• The division between
executive and real self obviously poses extra problem for ego state diagnosis.
• Since the ego state with executive power is the one which determines behavior, you would expect that the person’s behavioral clues would indicate that ego state.
Incongruity• So long as that ego state is
being experienced also as real self, your behavioral diagnosis will give you an accurate view of the person’s internal experiences.
• But what if the person then switches into a different ego state as real self, while still keeping executive power in the original ego states?
• How can you detect this using behavioral diagnosis?
Incongruity
• The fact is that
sometimes you can’t
detect it.
• This is most likely at
moments when the
person’s overall behavior
is relatively inactive.
Incongruity
• For example, you may see me
sitting listening to a lecture.
• I am sitting upright, not moving
much and not saying anything.
• At first guess, you might judge me
behaviorally as Adult.
• But internally, I might be in a Child
day dream.
• Without further enquiry, you have
no means of knowing this.
Incongruity
• More often, the person does
show behavioral clues to
indicate what is going on.
• When someone has executive
power in a different ego state
from that experienced in real
self, there is a split between
his behavior and his internal
experience.
Incongruity
• Externally he usually shows this in the
following way: his most obvious
behavioral signals will indicate the ego
state that has executive power.
• But at the same time, he will exhibit
other and more subtle signals which do
not match those of the executive ego
state.
• Instead they fit the ego state he is
experiencing as real self.
• In TA language, we say then that his
behavior shows incongruity.
Incongruity
• When I was having the discussion
with my colleagues at work, my
most obvious behaviors matched
the ego states I had in executive
throughout, Adult.
• But if you had watched and listened
to me with close attention, you
would have noticed some changes
at the moment I become bored and
shifted into Child as my real self.
Incongruity
• Up to that point, the pitch of my
voice had varied noticeably
through my sentences. Now, it
become monotonous.
• My gaze, which until then had
been switching regularly
between the work document
and my colleagues face, now lost
regularly focus and stared at one
point on the table.
Incongruity
• These incongruities would
help you judge that I had
shifted my experience of real
self out of Adult and into
Child.
• Recognizing incongruity is
one of the most important
skills you can develop as a
user of TA.
Thank You
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