What do you say after you say hello? : the psychology of human destiny

The celebrated psychotherapist reveals the way in which each individual's life is governed by a hidden script that results from parental programming As A Psychiatrist, Dr. Berne Found That Each Person, In Early Childhood--under The Powerful Influence Of His Parents--writes His Own Script That Will Determine The General Course Of His Life. That Script Dictates What Kind Of Person He Will Marry, How Many Children He Will Have, Even What Kind Of Bed He Will Die In. Most Of All, It Determines Whether He Will Be A Winner Or A Loser, A Spendthrift Or A Skinflint, A Tower Of Strength Or A Doomed Alcoholic. Some People, Says Berne, Have Scripts That Call For Them To Fail In Their Professions, Or To Be Repeatedly Disappointed In Love, Or To Be Chronic Invalids. Here, He Demonstrates How Each Life Script Gets Written, How It Works, And How Each Of Us Can Break Free Of It To Help Us Attain Real Autonomy And True Fulfillment.--from Publisher Description. Principles Of Transactional Analysis -- Parental Programming. Human Destiny ; Prenatal Influences ; Early Developments ; The Plastic Years ; The Script Apparatus ; Later Childhood ; Adolescence ; Maturity And Death -- The Script In Action. Types Of Scripts ; Some Typical Scripts ; Cinderella ; How Is The Script Possible? ; Transmission Of The Script -- The Script In Clinical Practice. The Preliminary Phases ; The Script Signs ; The Script In Treatment ; The Decisive Intervention ; Three Case Histories -- A Scientific Approach To Script Theory. Objections To The Theory Of Scripts ; Methodological Problems ; The Script Check List. Includes Bibliographical References. What Do You Say After You Say Hello? explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script - a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person he will marry, how many children he will have, and even what sort of bed he will die in... What Do You Say After You Say Hello? demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works and, more important, how anyone can improvise or change his script to make a happy ending...