Parent Contamination

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala,India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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I am in parent contamination when I

mistake parental slogans for adult reality.

These are taught beliefs that are taken as

facts. Berne call this prejudice. When a

person is speaking about herself and say

you instead of I, it is likely that the

content of what follows will be parent

contaminated.

• The world is a bad place.

• People cant be trusted.

• If at first you don’t succeed, try,

try, try again.

Parent Contamination

“ The difference between a conviction and

a prejudice is that you can explain a

conviction without getting angry.”

Samuel Butler

• Parental contaminations often

involve considerable emotions and

are likely to occur in relation to

specific subjects such as food,

religion, politics, race, class and

sex.

• At times, large segments of society

agree with prejudiced ideas.

• Contaminations often intrudes on

the laws of society.

Parent Contamination

• Take two minutes to write down all the

slogans and beliefs you remember hearing

from your parents and parental figures.

• Look through you list of parental slogans

and beliefs. Check whether each one is a

statement of reality or a parent

contamination.

• If you decide there are any you want to

update to fit with grown up reality, strike

them out and substitute your new version.

Activity

Thank You

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