What does script consist of?

There is so much stuff in ones dynamic unconscious that even with analysis we only become aware of a small percentage.  However, this can be enough to keep us balanced, healthy and live to lifes full potential.  I am often asked what does script consist of which is not always an easy question to answer in a simple non-psychobabble way.  The structure and content of our minds holds stored memories and strategies that once held the reasoning for child logic of survival.  This is the emotional data that therapists infer from on  why people experience life,  others and  the world the way they do.   We all have logic that was constructed from years ago which corresponds to our attachments with others and experiences in our development.  The script can then present with thoughts , feelings and behaviours that relate to these processes that were laid in the years where we were making sense of the world as infants.  Here how we behave feel and act is not always adult because our first strategies were laid down at a time of infant logic and goverened by how we felt and not so much about how we thought.  Here it can be confusing as behaviours in the “here and now” can relate to script survival patterns that once worked.  So why would what made sense in childhood and worked for our survival be appropriate now?  The answer to that is it is not always appropriate and that is why people find themselves in difficulties that don’t always make sense to them.  This is where the script leaves people powerless as a lot of the material can relate to the dynamic unconscious.  To me its not rocket science to then say “we cant manage what we dont know”.  This is where script awareness can be a fundamental gift in ones treatment for addiction.  Its the awareness that gifts one with the  “stuff of self” which then offers understanding to why we feel a certain way or experience something in a way that is different from others.  This can release people from the confusion which can be a burden in life.  Why carry stuff around we dont need to?

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