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Abstract
In the 1980s, one of the main figures of transactional analysis in France, Gysa Jaoui, designed an elegant way of graphically representing the main limits of a person's life script. She called it the “permission wheel” (“la roue des permissions”) because the circular shape of the diagram shows how large or small one's permission or freedom is in various areas of living. This article describes the concepts underlying the permission wheel and how to use the diagram as one way of understanding clients and planning treatment.
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Laurie Hawkes
Laurie Hawkes, DESS (clinical psychology), PTSTA (psychotherapy), is a psychotherapist and trainer. For an e-mail version of the permission wheel to print out and use as pencil-and-paper support, contact the author at 17 rue Sainte Marguerite, 93500PANTIN, France; e-mail: [email protected].