ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a way of understanding, recognizing and transforming experiences of failure and ruptures in transactional analysis psychotherapy. Transactional analysis is a theory and psychology, built as it is on sound moral, humanistic principles. In the context of psychotherapy, therapists and clients can make powerful, mutual partners and allies in healing and in the recovery of this lost facility for self-determination. The medical model of psychotherapy, in which the therapist is “the doctor” who diagnoses the client and dispenses cure, sits uneasily within the guiding principle. Therapy and supervision are acts of commitment to both the work and the client. Classical transactional analysis is a proven psychology and psychotherapy whose therapeutic aim is clients’ understanding of their internal dynamics and their capacity to change their behavior. The therapist offers a reparative emotional experience through empathy, attunement and inquiry.
