Any time your experience a racket feeling, you are in script. As children, we use racket feeling to get our needs met in families. We attempt to manipulate the environment so as to gain the parental support we gained in childhood by experiencing and showing these racket feelings.

1. Racket Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
SCMS School of Technology and Management
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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3. Imagine

4. Feeling
1. Different people report
different feelings.
2. The feeling registered is one
that you experience in a wide
range of different stress
situation.
3. The feeling registered is one
that was modeled or
encouraged in your family,
while other feelings were
discouraged or prohibited.
4. The emotion you felt did
nothing towards solving your
problem.

5. Racket and racket feeling
Racket feeling is a familiar emotion, learned
and encouraged in childhood, experienced in
many different stress situations, and
maladaptive as an adult means of problem
solving.
Racket is a set of scripty behavior, employed
outside awareness as a means of manipulating
the environment, and entailing the person’s
experiencing a racket feeling.

6. Racket and script
• Any time your experience a
racket feeling, you are in script.
• As children, we use racket
feeling to get our needs met in
families.
• We attempt to manipulate the
environment so as to gain the
parental support we gained in
childhood by experiencing and
showing these racket feelings.

7. Racket and authentic feelings
• The distinction was first suggested by Fanita
English.
• A racket feeling is always a substitute for another
feeling, one which was prohibited in our
childhood.
• Authentic feelings are those feelings we
experience as young children, before we learn to
censor them as being discouraged in the family.
• The list of authentic feelings are mad, sad, scared
and glad.

8. Are racket feelings bad?
• Not all racket feelings would
be categorized as “bad” by
the people who experience
it.
• Good racket feelings are
happiness, blamelessness or
euphoria. But all these
feelings are unauthentic.
• Names give to authentic
feelings are also give to
racket feeling.

9. Racket and authentic feelings
• Expression of authentic feeling is appropriate
as means of here and now problem solving
while expression of racket feeling is not.
• When we express an authentic feeling, we do
something that helps finish the situation for
us.
• When we express our racket feeling, we leave
the situation unfinished.

10. Activity
• In the previous example, what was your
authentic feeling.

11. Racketeering
• Fanita English coined the word
“Racketeering” to describe a way of
transacting which people may use as a means
of seeking strokes for their racket feeling.
• It is a kind of pastime, where the exchange
carry a charge of racket feeling.
• The frequent result is to transform the
racketeering exchange into a game.

12. Activity
• Did you racketeer during the past week?

13. Stamps
• When I experience a racket
feeling, thee are two things I
can do with it. I can express it
there and then. Or I can store
it away for use after.
• When I do the latter, I am said
to saving a stamp.
• People save stamps because by
cashing in the stamps, they can
move towards their script
payoff.

14. Activity
• In the past week, was there an
occasion when you felt a racket
feeling and saving it up instead
of expressing it there and then.
• What name would you give to
racket feeling saved on stamp.
• How big is a collection do you
have of this kind of feeling.
• Review your own stamp
collection and payoff you may
have in view when you cash it
in.

15. Racket system
• It was devised by Richard Erskine and Marilyn
Zalcman.
• The racket system is defined as a self reinforcing,
distorted system of feelings, thoughts and actions
maintained by script bound individuals. It has
three interrelated and interdependent
components :
– The script, beliefs and feelings.
– The rackety displays and
– The reinforcing memories.

17. Activity
Think about a recent incident that was
unsatisfactory or painful for you and in which
you finished up feeling bad.
Begin filling the content in the diagram of
racket system.
Draw a diagram of racket analysis with three
columns. Updated beliefs and feelings,
autonomous displays and reinforcing
memories.

18. Stay
happy