What is reciprocal behavior analysis?
Interactional behavior analysis is a psychological theory that was presented by Dr. Eric Berne in 1950 and in terms of its application in solving emotional and behavioral problems, it has been accepted by the psychological community and gradually in the fields of counseling, psychoanalysis, group therapy, management, and sociology. , organizational development and education have presented and developed new theories.
Ambiguity and complexity in the concepts, specialization and long treatment time in other psychotherapy methods caused interaction analysis with basic concepts and simple words to quickly replace the old psychotherapy methods. For this reason, the analysis of mutual behavior has been generalized and wherever humans were present and created relationships with each other, it found practical application and became a tool for changing and solving problems. Behavior analysis is an applied scientific school in which the use of complex concepts is avoided and its ideas are presented in such a way that they can be easily observed and experienced.
In the analysis of mutual behavior, the role of the environment and social communication is very important, however, ultimately, people are responsible for their own life and behavior, and a person should accept this responsibility and pay more attention to his role in life than any other factor. Analysis of mutual behavior It pays special attention to the internal relationships and problems of the person and the relationship of people with each other, and it is believed that if people have healthy, sincere and honest relationships with each other and replace them with destructive, negative and humiliating relationships, they will be able to overcome psychological pressures. reduce yourself and others and enjoy life more. Reciprocal behavior analysis, while simple, has the ability to organize complex, confused and disturbed thoughts and feelings of a person so that a person can gain a better understanding of himself by separating and organizing his thoughts and feelings, and as a result, with more awareness of his weaknesses and Their power to adopt healthy and constructive behaviors empowers a person to be able to analyze the problem and solve it in their psychological crises. Also, the analysis of mutual behavior provides the possibility to draw the personality structure in the form of personality diagrams, so that any person familiar with this method can understand the personality structure and mutual relationships of the person whose diagram is recorded by seeing the diagram. Today, interactional behavior analysis specialists can claim that using applied methods and a new language invented for psychology, its scope has been extended to social sciences, education, human resource management, organizational structures, psychoanalysis, and group therapy. In this way, the dynamics of behavior analysis theory has made it different from other schools.
The basic theory of mutual behavior analysis is presented based on personality states. Eric Burn introduced these personality states in three parts: “parent”, “adult” and “child”, which includes a kind of interconnected system of thinking, feeling and behaving. is to do; In the second stage and in the evolution of the theory, the analysis of mutual behavior, i.e. the relationship between people, was considered and investigated, and it was classified and presented based on the simultaneous psychological and social reactions and the exchange of mutual relations. In the third stage, by observing the hidden and two-level relationships in mutual relations, the mental games that are going on between people were discovered and the prediction of the final result of such mental games was defined and defined. The fourth stage of growth and completion of the theory of interaction analysis is the analysis of biography or life drama, which deals with similar mental games that people repeat many times. This general plan determines the way of life of people and defines the structure of the drama of everyone’s life. By achieving the theory of mutual behavior analysis, one can get to know the problems that cause imbalance in the personality structure and relationship with others, and the repetition of mental games and life plays, and discover and provide solutions to change and treat them.
Modern therapists in mutual behavior analysis, by presenting new theories and methods and adapting other theories, achieved a kind of contingent psychotherapy school which has been very effective and useful in treating and changing behavior. The main application of mutual behavior analysis in humans is to create behavioral, emotional and mental recognition, which are three important aspects of personality. With the help of behavior analysis and in order to gain knowledge about the potential personality and discover one’s true position, the change in the personality structure becomes completely possible. In the analysis of mutual behavior, any behavioral or emotional change in the first stage begins with logical insight, which is actually the knowledge of the set of weaknesses and strengths of a person’s behavior, thinking or feeling, and after its logical acceptance, through personality states, emotional understanding for the final change. will be The most important contributing factors for acceptance and acceptance of change in the theory of mutual behavior analysis are transparency, agency; And making a contract is for changing oneself, which contract is determined by the therapist himself or between him and the therapist.
