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Summary
RANI is an instrument for analyzing
relationships. Five relationships or transactional patterns are considered: ParentParent, Adult-Adult, Child-Child, ParentChild, and Child-Parent. The stroking
combinations are identified, providing a
new approach to stroke analysis in which
positive and negative, unconditional and
conditional strokes are linked together to
model the way strokes are given in practice.
Relationship Analysis is tackled by Berne
in two ways: The analytic, which describes
analyses of transactional patterns (Berne
1962), and the descriptive (Berne, 1970).
In the second approach Berne takes several
words commonly used to describe relationships and studies them through transactional analysis. In the earlier approach
Berne used complementarity of transactions to analyze relationships. He proposed a qualitative and quantitative
analysis. This article describes RANI, a
new approach to relationship analysis. It is
based on what Berne wrote of qualitative
differences in relationships and makes use
of a new insight into stroking analysis.
What is RANI?
RANI is an acronym standing for
Relationship Analysis Instrument. RANI
consists of five diagrams (Figure I) each
one of which shows one relationship or
transactional pattern. When someone wants
to analyze a relationship with another
person, he or she considers the transactional patterns: Parent-Parent, AdultAdult, Child-Child, Parent-Child, and
Child-Parent. These five are chosen rather
Figure 1
RANI
than nine possible transactional patterns
because it is believed by the author that, in
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Symbol
Stroking
Combination
NVVVVVVVVVV
Antipathy
Indifference
( +U+C)
(+u-C)
(-u+C)
(-U-C)
Figure 2
Quantitative Analysis of Relationships
To indicate the intensity of each relationship Berne suggests that the vector used
to represent them can be made with double
lines or can be thickened when the relationship is being drawn. Another approach
is to invite the client to assign weights
between 5, for most important, and I, for
least important. Thus the client indicates
the importance or intensity each relationship
has for him or her.
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RANI
His analysis indicated that each relationship was one of Sympathy; he was dissatisfied with the total relationship and he
smirked as he said this. He was invited to
do the analysis from another point of view,
basic life positions. He came up with the
following results: for Adult-Adult and
Child-Child he diagnosed his attitude as
I'm alright and you're alright with me;
for Parent-Child and Parent-Parent he
diagnosed I'm OK and you're Not OK;
and, for Child-Parent he assigned I'm Not
OK with me and you are. John decided to
change the Parent-Parent relationship, and
his smile was different as he said he would
change his own attitudes and behavior.
Some Observations
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Conclusion
RANI is the Hindi word for 'queen'
and, as is well known, queens produce neat
princes and princesses.
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