Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2213955
R. Cook
Abstract The author offers a theory of the development of the adult self that can be used to understand existential life predicaments that may not originate in childhood. She proposes an existential and developmental approach to working with a client’s search for meaning in a relational psychotherapy and offers five developmental stages of the adult self, diagramed as concentric circles in an integrating Adult ego state. Drawing on the work of existential psychotherapists, developmental psychologists, and Levin-Landheer’s cycle of development, the author outlines possible tasks and conflicts of each life stage. Rather than a medicalized treatment plan, she offers an existential and cocreative perspective comprised of eight possible therapeutic phases that she calls encounters for change. The clinical examples she provides demonstrate how exploring and sharing our own painful truths about life’s journey can provide a spiritual, relational, and cocreative encounter for our clients and ourselves.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184148
Ales Zivkovic
Abstract Deviant group members normally represent a threat to the group’s collective identity. Paradoxically, however, because group processes themselves evoke dilution of the individual’s identity, deviants may simultaneously play an important role in the group’s identity consolidation. The group’s relatedness with deviants is based on complex group and intergroup dynamics that influence not only the group’s attitude toward the deviant but also what the deviant represents for the group. This article touches on what the deviant’s role may be in a group’s projective processes and how the group may use the deviant in an attempt to maintain its collective identity. At times, what may benefit the group may not be seen as such, whereas what may harm the group may be regarded as preferable. Some of the unconscious processes that may underpin such dynamics are also addressed along with the introduction of the concepts of advancing and depreciating deviants. The article also evaluates how the deviant’s role for the group may change depending on the context.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184151
Pietro Cardile
Abstract The author responds to Stilman’s article in this issue of the Transactional Analysis Journal. He briefly discusses some of the issues he sees with online therapy from a TA perspective and raises some questions regarding the phenomenological, epistemological, and clinical implications and areas for further investigation related to bringing TA therapy into cyberspace.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184146
Anisha Pandya
Abstract The author presents a model for reframing the concept of rackets. She critiques the early literature regarding rackets and looks at their self-soothing role. The term “pacifiers” is introduced as an alternative to “rackets” to suggest that a humanistic perspective provides a more valuable approach to understanding intrapsychic processes. Drawing from her psychotherapeutic experience working with parents of infants as well as adult clients, the author emphasizes the role of genetic predisposition and body in the development of rackets. The model identifies the parenting tasks that facilitate emotional intelligence during infancy and suggests a link between the impact of parenting and the subsequent development of rackets. Different types of rackets are illustrated, and the causes of the individual choice of specific rackets are identified.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184147
Mandy M Atkinson
Abstract This article introduces an integrative framework for working with clinical disorders and maladaptive behaviors. This framework is based on the author’s experience working with eating and weight issues. The term “eating disorders” is used to refer to both undereating and overeating or obesity. Existing psychotherapy approaches to eating disorders and weight-related issues are explored, and the transactional analysis literature on eating disorders is evaluated. The author presents a framework she has found useful, which she calls Nourish. She has developed this model following heuristic research with 19 long-term clients with eating disorders and weight issues, especially anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, and obesity. This integrative, holistic framework combines classical TA theory and a relational approach to working clinically with eating and weight and focuses on supporting therapists in private practice as well as in clinical teams.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184149
R. Stilman
Abstract There has been a dramatic shift in the way that psychotherapy is delivered, supervised, and taught in response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. However, the discourse and narrative about working online has been primarily limited to technicalities and often focused on its limitations. In this essay, I invite readers into a reflective space by offering some ideas, theory, and practical examples in order to explore what might be gained by paying attention to some of the new information available when working online and how that might be relevant and incorporated into practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184154
E. Novak
Abstract Anisha Pandya’s recent Transactional Analysis Journal article entitled “Touching Practice: An Exploration of Runanubandh, Touch, and Contact in Psychotherapy” offers a detailed overview of her work with physical touch in transactional analysis practice. In referencing the author’s (Novak’s) work with clinical touch, Pandya showed how she made use of his ideas while retaining her own unique ways of thinking about and working with touch. In this way, Pandya advances the profession’s need for multiple perspectives on working with clinical touch. Of particular interest to the author here is relational aspects of clinical touch, including transference and countertransference. This included emphasis on and recognition of how both client and therapist are experiencing touch rather than the therapist being seen as an unimpacted observer. Pandya’s informed and disciplined approach to touch can be witnessed in the clinical case she offered in her paper. Her work invites us to think more deeply about when and how to make use of clinical touch.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2192114
Ali A. Berlin, Megan Berlin
Journal, 18(1), 15–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/036215378801800104 Feldman, M. (2009). Doubt, conviction and the analytic process. Routledge. Hargaden, H., & Sills, C. (2002). Transactional analysis: A relational perspective. Brunner-Routledge. Klein, M. (1946). Notes on some schizoid mechanisms. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 27, 99–110. Little, R. (2006). Ego state relational units and resistance to change. Transactional Analysis Journal, 36(1), 7–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/036215370603600103 Little, R. (2012). The inevitability of unconscious engagements and the desire to avoid them: A commentary on Stuthridge. Transactional Analysis Journal, 40(4), 257–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/036215371204200404 Mann, D. (2009). Enactments and trauma: The therapist’s vulnerability as the theatre for the patient’s trauma. In D. Mann & V. Cunningham (Eds.), The past in the present: Therapy enactments and the return of trauma (pp. 8–30). Routledge. Ogden, T. H. (1992). Projective identification and psychotherapeutic technique. Karnac. (Original work published 1982) Riesenberg-Malcolm, R. (1999). On bearing unbearable states of mind (P. Roth, Ed.). Routledge. Roth, M. (2020). Projective identification and relatedness: A Kleinian perspective. In J. Mills (Ed.), Debating relational psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his critics (pp. 159–164). Routledge. Scharff, J. (1992). Projective and introjective identification and the use of the therapist’s self. Jason Aronson. Stuthridge, J. (2012). Traversing the fault lines: Trauma and enactment. Transactional Analysis Journal, 42(4), 238–251. https://doi.org/10.1177/036215371204200402 Tudor, K. (2003). The neopsyche: The integrating adult ego state. In C. Sills & H. Hargaden (Eds.), Ego states (Key concepts in contemporary transactional analysis) (pp. 201–231). Worth Publishing.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2023.2184144
B. McLean
Abstract The author reviews all articles on relationship, couples, and marriage psychotherapy and counseling published in the Transactional Analysis Journal (TAJ) between 1970 and 2021 to determine whether transactional analysis has a substantive model of relationship psychotherapy. He synthesizes the content in search of a coherent, integrated, systematic approach to this practice and to determine whether it is informed by contemporary theory and practice. Since the 1970s, the publication in the TAJ of papers on relationship psychotherapy has steeply declined as the broader relationship psychotherapy field has become enlivened. Discussion focuses on the significant work needed to develop this area of practice.
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