Incongruity (Transactional analysis / TA is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and...

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Incongruity

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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. In TA language, we say then that his behavior shows incongruity.

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Incongruity

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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.

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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?

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Thank You

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