ABSTRACT
"Metaphors need to be renewed in a continual process of novel re-presentation". This emphasis on novelty and the "neo" echoes our original proposition that the role of the therapist "is primarily to facilitate suspension of the transferential expectation and to invite co-creation of fresh experience(s)". To import a metaphor from behavioural economics, the notion of "coherent arbitrariness" has interesting applications to psychological life in general. Within transactional analysis, and consistent with the dominant three ego state model of health, the "implicit" domain has largely been associated with Child ego states. J. Fosshage differentiated between "explicit learning" and "implicit procedural learning" and considered the implications for practice: In clinical situations when procedural knowledge is not accessible to consciousness, emphasis on "interactive intersubjective processes" or "non-interpretive processes" will be more productive. One of the aims of co-creative transactional analysis is to offer psychological models of health alongside pathology.
