ABSTRACT
The transactional analysis literature presents a series of themes expressed by Eric Berne, half-way between methodology and philosophy. Berne draws attention to the situation of a frequent game, which is described like this: a patient, after having different experiences of analytic therapy, presents himself to the transactional analyst with a precise manifestation. The patient’s Adult is to be separated from the borders existing between Parent and Child; or, rather, phenomenologically the person realises that what he has experienced as an Adult is, instead, extero-psychic or archeopsychic content. Interrogation is the first therapeutic operation and consists of a question posed by the Adult of the therapist to the Adult of the patient. The Bernean confrontation, which is an Adult–Adult transaction, differs from that of Jacqui Schiff, who works with psychotics who can become violent: with them, the transactions must be Parent–Child.
