The document discusses passive behaviors in transactional analysis. It provides an example of over adaptation, where a woman does the dishes and makes tea without being asked after coming home from work to see dishes piled up. Over adaptation occurs when a person complies with what they believe others want without checking or considering their own wishes. It is difficult to detect because it appears the person is thinking and being helpful. The person is actually discounting their ability to act on their own options and following what they think others want instead.

1. Over adaptation
Passive behavior

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Passive behaviors
• When I discount, I do so by making
statement to myself in my own
head.
• Thus a discount itself is not
observable.
• Since you can’t thought read, you
have no way of knowing I am
discounting unless I speak or act in
some way which indicates the
presence of the discount.

4. Passive behaviors
• There are four types of behavior
which always indicate that the
person concerned is
discounting. They are
• Doing nothing.
• Over adaptation.
• Agitation.
• Incapacitation or violence.

5. Over adaptation
• Amy comes into the house after a
hard day’s work. Her husband
Brian is sitting reading a
newspaper.
• Looking beyond him into the
kitchen, Amy sees a huge pile of
unwashed dishes besides the
sink.
• “Hi”, says Brian, “Hope you’ve had
a good day. Just about time for
tea, isn’t it?”.
• Taking her coat off, Amy goes
straight through to the kitchen.
She washes the pile of dishes and
gets down to making tea.

6. Over adaptation
• Neither Brian nor Amy noticed
that he has not asked here to
wash the dishes and make tea.
• Nor has she asked him if he wants
her to.
• Still less has she paused to think
whether she herself wants to
wash the dishes or whether it
might be more appropriate if
Brian Washed them.

7. Over adaptation
• Amy’s passive behavior is over
adaptation.
• When someone overadapts, she is
complying with what she believes in
Child are the wishes of others.
• She does so without checking with
them what their wishes are in
reality, and without any reference to
what her own wishes are.
• The person in overadapation, unlike
the person in doing nothing,
experiences herself as thinking
during the passive behavior.
• He thinking actually proceeds from a
contamination

8. Over adaptation
• Someone is overadaptation will
often be experienced by others as
helpful, adaptable or
accommodating.
• Thus overadaptation is frequently
stroked by those to whom the
person relates.
• Because of this social acceptability
and because the person appears to
be thinking, overadaptation is the
most difficult to detect of the four
passive behavior.
• The person in overadaptation is
discounting her ability to act on her
own options. Instead, she follows
options she believes others want.

9. Thank
You

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