Transactional Analysis on Change Theory and the Contamination of the Adult Ego State–Discussed!
The word contamination for many invokes the idea of disease. For instance, we tend to use the word when bacteria have gone into milk. Well, this is similar to the case with the contaminated Integrating Adult ego state.This occurs when we talk as if something is a fact or a reality when really this is a belief. Casteism is an example of this. The Integrating Adult ego state is contaminated in this case by the Parent ego state.We belong to one specific caste, we might have lived with parents or significant others who said such things as “People belonging to a specific caste take our jobs”. Growing up it is likely, that having no real experience to go by, we believed this. ADVERTISEMENTS: We might also have been told that…