What do you say to yourself about sex? Sexuality as gateway to life script

Ramella Paia Simona TSTA-P
Braga Alessandra TSTA-P
Musso roberta TSTA-P
Field of audience: P

Language: Italian (translated english)
Level of audience: All

INTRODUCTION

The topic of sexuality was introduced by Berne in his work in 1970 but then it has been forgotten in the subsequent scientific production.
In the training programs of psychotherapy it has a limited space often related to sexology and sexual diseases.
We believe that sexuality is a foundational portion of the life scripts.

From the moment we are conceived our bodies, even before in our minds, are recognized, cared for, caressed and becomes our first instrument of relationship (Berne, 61). The body in which deep memories are woven, often unspoken, serves as the structuring element of one’s person.

Fundamental in this view are the attribution of meanings, the narratives that each person makes about himself and the other, and about the situation describing his or her own script.

CONTENT COVERED

Very often in therapy rooms, sexuality remains on the sidelines for investigations more related to social dynamics.

Giving sexuality a specific light in transactional analytic work, in its intra- and inter psychic, fosters a new Physis in people.

After recovering the historical roots of this theme’s role in TA, we  will  propose issues about sexuality as an element characterizing the script and the script protocol.

The workshop, by a theoretical-practical methodology, aims to:

  1. Recover the historical roots of the role of sexuality in TA.
  2. Describe a concept of sexuality as a characterizing element of the script and the script protocol.
  3. Propose a deep introspective experience in everyone personal script about the role of sexuality in life.

METHODS

We will do co-constructive work on current evolutions of sexuality in TA using a theoretical-practical methodology and  using self experienced methods  paying attention particularly on protection, permission and potency.

CONCLUSION

The focus on the role of sexuality in everyone script will open to a new operational skill in psychotherapy.