ABSTRACT
A psychotherapy group that follows Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis model is a treatment in which the therapist has weekly meetings with a group of adults whose aim is to handle some changes, solve a symptom, or even just analyse their script through psychotherapy. One usually enters a group after a period of individual therapy, either short or long—one month to a year—and each member will work to attain his contract goal by using the group relationships to test the change he wants to achieve, as in a laboratory. In the concept of imago and its use in Berne’s type of group lies the essential tool of a Transactional Analysis therapist. Going back to the group and the concept of imago, the therapy group is like medicine or a treatment course for those patients who do not want to come to terms with difficulties or to enter the group.
