The Elements of the Life Script and Neurobiology

Abstract

This article is based on the speech ”The Seven Elements of the Life Script” at the MIR-TA (International Institute of Developmental Transactional Analysis, IIDTA) Student Conference, which was held in July 2023. In this paper, the author relies on Tony White’s article “The Life Script Heptagon” (2022), as well as works of Adriana Montheiro and Louis Kozolino on the topic of neuroscience. Advances in neuroscience may now provide new insights into the concept of the life script proposed by Eric Bern. The motivation of the client to change and study his life script is in the locus of control of a psychologist working in the modality of transactional analysis. The purpose of the author is to analyse a new view on the constituent components of a life script and to raise the question: what is the main target in the work of a psychologist in different methods of psychotherapy, as well as studying the connection between the script process and new research in the field of neuroscience, which will expand the understanding of the life script for more productive work.