Full Description
This book takes the reader on a decolonising journey from the radical roots of transactional analysis to intersectional transactional analysis on the ground, challenging social constructs and constructed truths.
Contemporary Transactional Analysis Through an Intersectional Lens: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Theory and Practice, is framed by social, cultural, political, and historical contexts, and accounts for systemic oppression - the onslaught of colonisation, supremacies, and systemic racism - which has not been adequately addressed in TA and psychotherapy. Victoria Baskerville draws on social justice and the role of activism, influenced by queer theory, critical race theory, and critical disability studies, to challenge binary social constructs and further contemporary practice. This book amplifies voices of the marginalised and the complexity of intersectional power dynamics, and honours our ancestry and the responsibility we hold as coloniser or colonised - and in many instances, both. Reflecting on the idea that 'all oppression is connected', it invites the opening up of mind and heart through the practice of radically open and non-defended dialogue, the call to move from 'I' to 'we' - a collective awakening - and asking, in each unique encounter: who holds the power? And, ultimately, what is my part in this intersectional dyad?
This book will be an important resource for psychotherapists, counsellors, transactional analysts, and other mental health professionals, students, and educators taking the decolonising journey.
Contents
1. Introduction: The journey 2. What is transactional analysis through an intersectional lens? 3. Evolving an inclusive training: The process of deconstructing and decolonising through an intersectional lens 4. A transcultural and intersectional ego state model of the self, 2025: The influence of transcultural and intersectional identity on self and other 5. Deconstructing and reconstructing the curriculum through an intersectional lens 6. All theory and practice placed within systemic oppression through an intersectional lens 7. Relational TA with an intersectional lens: Systemic enactment and working with the shadow of the collective soul 8. Doing the intersectional work: Daring to have radically open and non-defended dialogue 9. The role and influence of activists 10. The evidence, 10,000 cuts: Research on inclusivity and exclusivity in counselling and psychotherapy training and the experience of trainees, in particular with regard to difference Authors: Victoria Baskerville, Nilufar Ahmed, Vikki Nelson, and Gillian Neish 11. Amplifying voices: A collection of dialogues 12. No time: 'Our house is on fire', climate change and colonisation 13. Pivotal themes and concluding thoughts Appendices 1. ITAA Social Engagement Committee: Intersectionality Focus Group, 2021 Appendices 2. The multi complexity of difference, a conversation Appendices 3. Critique and development of the Transcultural and Intersectional Ego State Model of the Self, 2022, to the 2025 updated version
