ABSTRACT
In recent years attempts have been made to integrate TA with intrapsychic dynamics and interpersonal behaviour patterns within a humanistic and existential framework (Clarkson 1992). This mixing of therapies has become common and has blurred the boundaries between a number of therapies. It will be apparent to the reader that each therapy, at least in its early development, picks up and inflates one of the elements of Freud and of mainstream analytic psychotherapy, while excluding others. In Figure 10 we have attempted to show the derivation from Freud’s ideas of most of the forms of therapy described in this book. They would not necessarily be acknowledged by those mentioned, nor do they always imply an apostolic succession of analyst and analysand. The ‘family tree’ illustrates our contention, expressed in the Foreword (p. vii) and Introduction to Part I, that all forms of dynamic therapy derive from the work of Freud and psychoanalysis.
