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Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2023

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Paul Siegel*
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Department of Psychology, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY 10577, USA. paul.siegel@purchase.edu https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/671-paul-siegel
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Abstract

In his ‘script theory,' Tomkins first proposed that people unconsciously organize their life experiences in terms of narrative structures he termed “scripts.” I use a clinical vignette to illustrate how the psychotherapeutic process of “making the unconscious conscious” involves becoming aware of the maladaptive scripts that people unwittingly live by, and developing them into the “conviction narratives” proposed by the authors.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e107
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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