ABSTRACT
Eric Berne in his structural analysis uses simple words: "child," "adult," and "parent". Structural and transactional analysis lend themselves to self-examination more readily than orthodox psychoanalysis does, since they effectively bypass many of the difficulties inherent in self-psychoanalysis. This chapter outlines a new approach to group therapy, based on the distinction between exteropsychic, neopsychic, and archaeopsychic ego states. While obviously strongly influenced by the psychoanalytic model, Berne's system has the virtue of greater simplicity and comprehensibility. The ultimate goal of transactional analysis is the analysis of scripts, since the script determines the destiny and identity of the individual. The therapist who has some knowledge of his own personality structure has a distinct advantage in dealing with his counter-transference problems: that is, the activity of his own Child or Parent with its own favourite games, its own script, and its own motives for becoming a group therapist.
