It features eight new Drama Triangles including The Darwinian Proof of the three hidden roles of the Compassion Triangle. The final diagram shows the two deepest levels of the Drama Triangle. The full five levels contain the Dialogue, the Monologue, the …

Stephen B. Karpman, M.D. 1. THE HISTORY OF THE DRAMA TRIANGLE The Triangle emerged from my doodling 30 pages of basketball and football fakes. There was once a fourth corner, the Trickster, which eventually was incorporated into the switch lines. It began as a script triangle, but soon was used as a game triangle.

The original Drama Triangle article reprint and selected Transactional Analysis articles by Dr. Karpman

The drama triangle (Karpman, S. 1968, 1973) offers the theory link because it is a visual, a diagram. In Eric Berne's theory-making requirements, he taught his followers to create simple scientific diagrams using Occam's Razor of Scientific Parsimony to reduce psychological patterns to their unifying basic core.

The drama triangle (Karpman 1968) is used commonly to diagram the games of today, but it also can be used to diagram the games of the childhood family when the script was created. The two drama triangles can be

By Stephen B. Karpman, M.D. * In 1971 I postulated that there were four ways of blocking intimate communication at a transactional level. They were called the Condescending, Abrupt, Secretive, and Evasive intimacy blocks. Generally, the four occurred simultaneously, so they were looped together in a diagram to illustrate their interconnectedness.

Below is the original Drama Triangle Article published in 1968. The reference for this is: Karpman, S. (1968). Fairy tales and script drama analysis. Transactional Analysis Bulletin, 7(26), 39-43.

In this paper I will present some diagrams for drama analysis of the script, using familiar examples from well known fairy tales. Drama can be analyzed as switches in role and location on a time continuum.

The first comprehensive book on the Drama Triangle: Karpman, S. (2014) A Game Free Life: The New Transactional Analysis of Intimacy, Openness, and Happiness: San Francisco. Drama Triangle Publications. ISBN-13: 978-0-9905867-0-8. The recent book of 35 papers and notes of collated published and unpublished papers:

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