Full Description
Transactional Analysis Proper—and Improper: Selected and New Papers offers a critical reading of transactional analysis (TA), which analyses, deconstructs, and reconstructs its foundational theory.
Keith Tudor's work is detailed, informative, and critical, and written with deep affection for TA and its founder, Eric Berne. Beginning with its philosophical foundations, Tudor considers TA's ontological assumptions about the essence of human beings, its method and methodology, and its treatment philosophy. A series of chapters then review and advance TA's theory of transactions, ego states, life scripts, and psychological games, and the book concludes with two chapters which both honor TA's traditions and look forward to what TA might do differently.
This book offers a unique 'insider but independent' perspective on transactional analysis. It will be essential reading for students and practitioners of transactional analysis and encourages free, independent, and critical thinking about TA and its place in the world.
Contents
Introduction
PART I: Basic assumptions
Introduction
1. 'We are': the fundamental life position (2016)
2. There's methodology in the contractual method: philosophy in practice
3. Permission, protection, and potency—the 3 Ps, reconsidered (2016)
PART II: New wine from old roots
Introduction
4. 'I'm OK, you're OK—and they're OK': therapeutic relationships in transactional analysis (1999)
5. From transactional analysis to transactional relating: the gift of the present, and the reality of context
6. The state of the ego: then and now (2010)
7. We've had 66 years of ego states and the world's getting worse
8. Shame, shaming, and 'shame': a transactional analysis (1995)
9. Growth: old scripts, new narratives
10. Regulation and registration: protection or protectionism? A plea for pluralism (2010b)
11. Gaming and playing: re-reading Games People Play
PART III: Looking back, looking forward
Introduction
12 . Honouring our tradition(s), developing personal praxis
13. Live long and prosper: a Vulcan view of transactional analysis
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