ABSTRACT

This book represents a synthesis of more than thirty years dedicated to the spreading and teaching of transactional analysis, and will be useful to students, directors and professors of the schools of transactional analysis, and also to therapists of other schools, providing an up-to-date and complete idea of the current state of the analytic transactional methodology. The handbook describes the epistemological and methodological roots for a well-grounded psychotherapy with transactional analysis (TA): differences among method, methodology, therapeutic plan, and strategy and technique are all illustrated. TA is presented as a phenomenological branch of modern relational psychoanalysis. Transference and counter-transference are reconsidered in a Bernean perspective. The four strategic phases of alliance, decontamination, deconfusion, and relearning are presented, together with the well-known techniques of the eight Bernean therapeutic operations, two and three-chairs work, redecision technique, and dream-work.

chapter 1|21 pages

General principles

chapter 2|18 pages

Change in transactional analysis

chapter 3|18 pages

Defence and resistance

chapter 4|9 pages

The clinical methodology

chapter 5|25 pages

The setting

chapter 6|8 pages

The therapeutic contract

chapter 7|17 pages

The Bernean methodology

chapter 8|22 pages

Post-Bernean re-decision tactics

chapter 9|11 pages

The psychodynamic approach