ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a co-creative transactional analysis of empathy as the principal method of co-creative transactional analysis. It locates co-creative transactional analysis as a relational transactional analysis and considers its similarities and differences with the integrative approach to transactional analysis of R. G. Erskine and others, and the relational transactional analysis of Helena Hargaden and Charlotte Daellenbach Sills. The therapist does this through a series of Adult–Adult transactions. The therapist does not intend to offer or develop complementary ulterior transactions between the therapist's integrating Adult and the client's archaic Child. The client takes in her or his experience of being received, as well as of not being received and being misunderstood, and takes out or abstracts this experience. It is clear that co-creative transactional analysis is a relational approach to transactional analysis, and contributes to both the understanding and application of relational principles.
