After fifty years of development and refinement in Transactional Analysis (TA), the theory of methods and the actual methods have changed considerably from what was originally published by Eric Berne. Many concepts and methods have emerged and been subject to clinical experimentation, some have been refined and expanded and some are no longer used. This book includes contributions from several authors, each of whom presents his or her unique focus on how TA is used in their psychotherapy practice. This book will address the therapeutic effectiveness of various methods in TA and will cover a variety of topics such as unconscious experience, transference-countertransference, the therapist’s transparency, transgenerational scripts, trauma and regression, psychological games, the self-destructive client, an integrative approach to the psychotherapy of obsession, gender psychopolitics, and psychotherapy from a social-cognitive perspective. It is written for both psychotherapists and counselors who want to learn and refine their knowledge of contemporary TA methods that are most effective with today’s clients. Table of Contents:
Foreword—James R. Allen
Preface—Richard G. Erskine
About the Editor and Contributors 1) A Transactional Analysis of obsession: integrating diverse concepts and methods—Richard G. Erskine
2) Transference-countertransference focused Transactional Analysis—Ray Little
3) The heart of redecision therapy: resolving injunctive messages—John R. McNeel
4) Opening to the vitality of unconscious experience—William F. Cornell
5) From impenetrability to transparency: the “I” of the beholder—Elana Leigh
6) Changing transgenerational scripts—Gloria Noriega Gayol
7) Inference, re-experiencing, and regression: psychotherapy of Child ego states—Richard G. Erskine & Amaia Mauriz-Etxabe
8) Evolving theory and practice with the self-destructive individual—Tony White
9) Psychological games and intersubjective processes—Jo Stuthridge & Charlotte Sills
10) Transactional Analysis in the psychotherapy of personality disorders—Moniek Thunnissen
11) Social-cognitive Transactional Analysis: from theory to practice—Maria Teresa Tosi
12) Gender psychopolitics: men becoming, being, and belonging—Karen Minikin & Keith Tudor References
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