ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to put straight the principles of transactional analysis, orientated in a psychodynamic sense. In a macroscopic perspective, Clarkson talks about establishing a work relationship, and, in that sense, understands psychotherapy as an internal voyage, for which the psychotherapist does not have a map, but should have the capacity to draw maps. This capacity is based on his competence in respecting, and making the other respect, the reciprocal setting, and his capacity to manage variations in the setting itself. In setting up a psychodynamic approach in transactional analysis, in particular when referring to individual psychotherapy, one should take into account the various contributions of the movements in relational psychoanalysis. However, that which ties in best with transactional analysis is that of communicative psychoanalysis. Correctly setting up a clinical case is at the basis of therapy: exactitude enhances the possibility of avoiding games and the probability of constructing a healthy alliance with the patient.
