Some scripts can be traced back in a clinical interview to the great-grandparents, and if the family has a recorded history, as is often the case with kings and their courtiers, it may go back a thousand years in time. No doubt scripts began when the first manlike creatures appeared on earth,5 and there is no reason to suspect that their scenes and acts and outcomes were different then than they are now. Certainly the life courses of the kings of Egypt, which are the oldest reliable biographies we have, are typical scripts. The story of Amenhotep IV, 3500 years in the past, who changed his name to Ikhnaton is a good example.6 By this change he brought on both greatness and the fury of those who followed him. If information about re- mote ancestors, or the great-grandparents, can be obtained, so much the better for the script analysis, but in ordinary practice, in most cases, it starts with the grandparents.