ABSTRACT
In the clinic, the language of transactional analysis is used to describe interpersonal and intrapsychic processes. In the group psychotherapy, the redecision model of transactional analysis is used extensively. For more than thirty-five years transactional analysis has been used in a short-term inpatient psychotherapy programme in de Viersprong, a psychiatric institute in the Netherlands. The programme includes group psychotherapy, non-verbal therapies, and sociotherapy in a therapeutic milieu. The real redecision needs a respectful attitude from the therapist towards the power of the survival decision and a shift of energy into the more healthy ego states resulting in the patient taking a new decision and letting go of the old patterns. The real redecision needs a respectful attitude from the therapist towards the power of the survival decision and a shift of energy into the more healthy ego states resulting in the patient taking a new decision and letting go of the old patterns.
