This document discusses the "Russell White Head type of corner" which sometimes occurs in therapy groups where silence itself can be considered a form of game playing. It notes that when one person, referred to as White, is deprived of using logical paradoxes to maneuver conversations, their underlying anxieties will come to the surface quickly. The document was prepared by Manu Melwin Joy, Assistant Professor at Ilahia School of Management Studies in Kerala, India.

1. Russell White Head Type of corner
Transactional Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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3. Russell White Head Type of corner
• An elegant variant,
which may be called
the “ Russell White
Head type of corner”,
sometimes occurs in
therapy groups.

4. Russell White Head Type of corner
• Black : When we are silent,
nobody is playing game.
• White : Silence itself may be
a game.
• Red : Nobody was playing
games today.
• White : But not playing
games may be itself a game.

5. Russell White Head Type of corner
• The therapeutic antithesis
is equally elegant.
• Logical paradoxes are
forbidden.
• When white is deprived of
this maneuver, his
underlying anxieties come
quickly to the fore.

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