Notes on Ch. 3. The Four Life Positions

Very early in life every child concludes, I'm not OK. He also makes a conclusion about his parents, You're OK. This is an unconscious conclusion not based on lot thinking based on words. But it is based on his circumstances and observations. In the same unconscious manner the conclusion can change later on to I'm not OK, You're not OK or I'm OK, You're not OK.

The shift to I'm OK, You're OK is based on reasoning and thought. The purpose of transactional analysis is bring more people into this life position. This position is a consciousand verbal decision. The reasoning is based on an infinitely greater amount of information about individual and others and also the incorporation of not-yet-experienced possibilities which exist in the abstractions of the philosophy and religion. The first three positions are based on feelings. The fourth is based on on thought, faith, and the wager of action.