Script theory is expanded by showing the relationship between scripting, the structural analysis of ego states, group imagoes, and relationship analysis. This synthesis bridges Berne's sometimes conflicting tendencies to be neo-Freudian or neo-Adlerian, to develop either a social psychiatry or a social psychology, and to be oriented toward either individuals or family systems.
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