Baby’s emotional experience is of rage, utter misery, terror or ecstasy. He makes early decisions in response to these intense feelings. Thus it is not surprising that the decisions are often extreme.

1. Early reality testing and emotions
Life script

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Early reality testing and emotions
• Baby’s emotional
experience is of rage, utter
misery, terror or ecstasy.
• He makes early decisions in
response to these intense
feelings.
• Thus it is not surprising
that the decisions are often
extreme.

4. Early reality testing and emotions
• A young child does not
think like a grown up.
Nor does she experience
emotion in the same
way.
• Script decisions are made
on the basis of a child’s
distinctive ways of
thinking and feeling.

5. Early reality testing and emotions
• In the logic of the infant, the
rule is to reason from the
particular to general.
• Suppose the child’s mother is
inconsistent in responding to
her demands.
• The child doesn’t concludes
that mother is untrustworthy.
Instead, she concludes that
people can’t be trusted.

6. Early reality testing and emotions
• The child may compensate
for his feeling of
powerlessness by imagining
he is omnipotent or can
work magic.
• If the child senses he is
being rejected by a parent,
he may attribute the fault to
himself , deciding “There is
something wrong with me”.

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