ABSTRACT
Central in the practice of Transactional Analysis in contemporary psychotherapy is the resolution of clients' Child ego state conflicts and issues of life script. Many therapists have had clients who claim to have no memory of childhood experiences before the age of eight or ten, yet those same clients have intense longings or repulsions, patterns of avoidance or compulsion, and tumultuous relationships. Reliving is different from remembering. Lorraine Price's qualitative research and review of a vast number of psychotherapy publications provides credence to the idea that there are significant therapeutic benefits emerging from a supportive, therapeutic regression wherein the client can trust in the dependability of the psychotherapist. The therapy had several stages: first, re-establishing the security of our therapeutic relationship; second, decontaminating and strengthening the client's Adult ego. Instead of reactivating archaic patterns of self-protection, therapeutic re-experiencing enables clients to relinquish physiological retroflections, express unexpressed emotions, and make life-changing decisions.
