Against injunctive messages - about defiant decision in response to injunctive message

Against injunctive messages - about defiant decision in response to injunctive message

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16926/eat.2019.08.04

Keywords:

injuctive message, decision, defiant decision, despair decision

Abstract

We accept injunctive message through an unaware decision (Goulding, Goulding, 1997, p. 13). It’s not always so obvious. We have two ways of accepting injunctive message - a despair and defiant decision. When we make a despair decision - we accept the injunctive message and live limiting our functionality in some aspect. However, when we make a defiant decision, we act in accordance with the principle of "I will show you!" and in an excessive way we prove to ourselves and others, that nothing similar concern us. Although this form of accepting injunctive message is slightly healthier, it is still destructive and a person who is experiencing it is influenced by it and works under the urge to prove something. This is a defiant decision, and excess in some aspect, is the most important clue that can help identify it. (McNeel, 2010, 159-169).

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Author Biography

Agnieszka Woś-Szymanowska, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu

psychologist, business consultant, transactional analysis practitioner

References

Berne, E. (1972). What do you say after you say hello? London: Corgi Books.

Goulding, M., Goulding, R. (1997). Changing lives through redecision therapy. Revised and Updated Edition. New York: Grove Press.

McNeel, J. (2010). Understanding the Power of Injunctive Messages and How They Are Resolved in Redecision Therapy. Transactional Analysis Journal, 40(2), 159–169, https://doi.org/10.1177/036215371004000211.

Stewart, I. Joines, V. (2016). Analiza Transakcyjna dzisiaj. Poznań: Dom Wydawniczy REBIS.

Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

Woś-Szymanowska, A. (2019). Against injunctive messages - about defiant decision in response to injunctive message. The Educational Transactional Analysis, (8), 63–69. https://doi.org/10.16926/eat.2019.08.04

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Transactional Analysis in Other Fields
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