Rubber band
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Rubber band• When I went into script in my argument with the
Director, It wasn’t just because the situation was stressful. It was also that the here and now scene resembled a painful scene from my childhood.
• In TA language, we say that the present situation is a rubber band back to the early situation.
Rubber band• This expresses graphically how we respond at times as
though we had been catapulted back to early childhood scenes.
• Imagine a giant rubber band stretching through time. It hooks on to some feature of the present that recalls childhood pain, and twang – off we go into the past.
Rubber band• Because Mother and Father
are such important figures in our early life, they are often to be found at the far end of rubber bands.
• Talking to anyone with whom we relate significantly, we identify them some of the time with figures from the past.
• This phenomenon that Freudians call Transference.
Rubber band
• In TA, we refer to it
colloquially as “putting a
face on someone”.
• When I went into script in
my argument with the boss,
I was putting my father’s
face on him.
Rubber band
Rubber bands do not always
stretch back to people. We
can also hook back to
sounds, smells, particular
surroundings or anything
else that reminds us
unawarely of stressful
situations in childhood.
Rubber band• One of the goals of change in TA is to disconnect the
rubber bands.• Through script understanding and personal therapy, I
can resolve the original trauma and free myself to tackle here and now situation with all the grown up resources at my command.
Activity• Think of a recent situation in
which you were under stress and which ended unpleasantly or unsuccessfully for you.
• Think what bad feeling you experienced during that situation.
• Now recollect such an incident happened in the past year, then five years back, your teenage, your childhood and go as far as possible.
Activity• The aim of this exercise is to
trace the far end of the rubber band.
• What was the similarity between the recent experience and your childhood experience.
• If another person was involved in the recent experience, what ‘face’ from the past were you putting on him or her?
Activity• Once you are aware what post
situation you are replaying,
you can begin disconnecting
the rubber band.
• Use Adult awareness to remind
yourself that people in the
here and now are in fact
different from Father and
others.
Activity• If you begin experiencing the
bad feeling, be aware that the
present situation is different
from that in the past.
• You now have the resources
and options of a grown up
person, as well as those of the
child you were in the early
scene.
Thank You
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