ABSTRACT
Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (ITAP) was developed by the Italian transactional analysts, Professor Marco Sambin and Francesco Scotta. ITAP relies on the concept of Malan's triangles. The first, the triangle of conflict maps out on each corner of an inverted triangle the concepts of dynamic conflict. At the lower corner there is the Impulse. This may be an emotion, a desire or need which cannot be freely expressed. On the upper right corner is Anxiety. Anxiety may also manifest through dry mouth, sweating, blushing, rumbling stomach, or through thought process becoming incoherent, accelerated or conversely, slowed down. The second triangle is Malan's triangle of insight. Again, an inverted triangle is used to represent the Past (lower corner of the triangle), the Transference relationship (upper right corner) and the client's Current life (upper left) or; back then-in here-out there.
