Abstract
This article considers the state of the world today from a perspective that integrates transactional analysis with a holistic vision. Paradoxically, while human beings are the most intelligent living species, they are also the most predatory. The author suggests that the causes of this include the materialistic paradigm (i.e., the belief that reality is comprised of the three-dimensional world) and limitations in educational processes that occur in families and schools. The negative results are described in terms of the structural pathology of contaminations, blocking, and exclusions. In addition, it is suggested that authoritarian and overprotective behaviors found in systems from the family up to governments have resulted in inadequate use of the Adult ego state, a search for strokes, and increased game playing with a corresponding failure in the capacity to ask for, give, and receive positive strokes.
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