BerneEricPrinciples of Group Treatment. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966. Berne says that Parent ego state represents psychological, historical, and behavioral realities borrowed from parent figures. It may exert itself as an indirect influence or be directly exhibited in parental behavior (p. 366). For example, in the Parent ego state a woman is behaving as mother behaved; under the parental influence (meaning when in the Adapted Child) she is behaving as mother would have liked (p. 222).
2.
This was a three-year program funded by the Ford Foundation through the Universities of Michigan and California.
3.
JamesMuriel. What Do You Do With Them Now That You've Got Them? Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1974, p. 70. If people are reparented — Either by self or others — This new parent in the Parent ego state also needs analyzing as well as the historical parent figures. See Schiff, Jacqui Lee, with Day, Beth. All My Children. M. Evans, New York, 1971, pp. 210–211. See also, James, Muriel. “Self-Reparenting: Theory and Process,” Trans. An. J., 4: 3, July 1974, pp. 32–39.
