Tag Archives: Transactional Analysis

A note to oneself re: emotional self-regulation

Posted on May 22, 2013 by dwighttowers

You can’t effectively go through your ooda loop at speed if you are constantly allowing yourself to go (or be pushed) into either child or parent mode. Ergo, stay on your feet!! Don’t dive in. Of course, your opponents will … Continue reading →

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Regression Analysis – what’s your favourite ego-defence/altered state?

Posted on April 21, 2013 by dwighttowers

Doing a lot of thinking (well, ruminating – they aren’t the same) of late. Some of it is around “Transactional Analysis” – something I’ve known about for years and was recently re-exposed to (early February, I think) at a so-so … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Pining for a Place beyond the under-cooked myths

Posted on April 14, 2013 by dwighttowers

Mrs Towers should choose the films. She whittled it down to three, and gave me final say (she likes to let me think I am in charge, it’s one of those games people play). And I chose “The Place Beyond … Continue reading →

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“Epic Frail” – a non-viral, non-viable Internet meme

Posted on October 20, 2012 by dwighttowers

The young kids are, I am told, fond of the phrase “Epic Fail.” I propose a homage/spoof/refinement to “Epic Frail,” for use whenever we spot ourselves or other folks being human, all to human.  If you keep your eyes open, … Continue reading →

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Of Silence; Savile, Hillsborough, Armstrong and the Pending Ecological Debacle

Posted on October 16, 2012 by dwighttowers

What ties together a predatory paedophile, a State smearing of innocent football fans, a drugged-up cyclist and the imminent (decades? years?) self-inflicted cluster fuck of hitting ecological brick walls while accelerating? Silence. Lots of people had good suspicions (or more?) … Continue reading →

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Abba, anomie and apocalypse

Posted on October 14, 2012 by dwighttowers

The song starts out thus – I was at a party and this fella said to me “Something bad is happening, I’m sure you do agree People care for nothing, no respect for human rights Evil times are coming, we … Continue reading →

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