Abstract
This article is the edited text of the acceptance speech given by Gloria Noriega in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 2008 World TA Conference. It describes her epidemiological research into four mechanisms of transgenerational script transmission: ulterior transactions, psychological games, transference psychodynamics, and projective identification. Codependency was used as an example of a cultural script that is transmitted by unconscious communication to sub-sequent generations. The Codependency Instrument (ICOD), which is based on transactional analysis theory, was used with a sample of 830 women at a health center in Mexico City. Significant results were obtained by analyzing alcoholism, domestic violence, affective losses, cultural scripts, and female illiteracy as risk factors related to codependency, both in the family of origin and in current couple relationships.
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