Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2044626
Jaseem Koorankot, T. Mukherjee
Abstract In transactional analysis, strokes are considered to be a primary motivator of behavior. Analysis of the stroking patterns of individuals can help practitioners and researchers gain insight into maladaptive behaviors that could be indicative of psychopathology. However, an objective standardized tool for use in an Indian clinical population has not existed. The study described here aimed to develop such a tool to measure transactional analysis stroke patterns among a clinical population. Standard procedure was carried out to construct the Stroke Pattern Inventory (SPI). Results showed good reliability and validity for the constructed tool. With the constructed tool, 239 participants, including 119 outpatients of a psychiatric hospital, and 120 controls were assessed. The result indicated a significant difference in clinical and nonclinical participants in accepting negative strokes, asking for negative strokes, giving positive strokes, rejecting negative strokes, rejecting positive strokes, negative self-stroking, and positive self-stroking. The SPI was found to have discriminatory validity to differentiate between clinical and nonclinical participants. Future directions and implications for research and therapy are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2044112
E. Novak
Abstract This article explores the journey that leads a client to discover and work through a transgenerational haunting. The author details how this haunting had entangled three family generations within a theme of institutionalization. Theories around transgenerational transmission of trauma are linked to various parts of the client’s history and treatment to highlight the similarities and subtle differences between these theories. The case also highlights the interplay between theory and clinical observations, specifically, how a theory-driven process that dominates clinical observations can impede a client’s opportunity to take personal responsibility for their own life script.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2045537
Salman Hintaw Abdulhussien, R. Pishghadam, Moein Sakhtkar Haddadi
Abstract This article describes how the transactional analysis concept of strokes can contribute to our understanding of educational psychology and the dynamics in educational settings between teachers and students. Teachers’ stroking behavior may be influenced by several factors, including gender, age, and culture. The study described here investigates the differences among Iraqi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ conceptions of types of strokes based on the age of their teachers. Five hundred Iraqi teenage learners responded to a 32-item scale. The results of repeated measures ANOVA manifested that there was not a significant difference in the students’ perceptions of overall kinds of strokes given by young and older teachers. However, two subscales of strokes—verbal conditional positive and verbal conditional negative strokes—were perceived significantly differently between older and younger teachers. Finally, and importantly, verbal conditional negative strokes turned out to be less unpleasant than unconditional ones regardless of the teacher’s age, denoting that if the teacher is to give negative strokes, students prefer conditional ones.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2046318
Ales Zivkovic
Abstract The author considers how through reenactments, early developmental trauma and potential impairments in personality functioning may manifest in the psychotherapeutic relationship and how such reenactments may be underpinned by the individual’s need to control the intrapsychic dynamics through the use and control of interpersonal relationships. Some of the common transference manifestations are considered along with how they present fertile ground for resolution of the underlying internal conflicts. The article addresses this mainly through the theory and clinical examples from clients presenting with some level of personality impairment. In terms of psychotherapeutic technique, the author falls back on what he refers to as interpretive dynamic transactional analysis psychotherapy (IDTAP). There is a particular focus on reenactments of the destructive internal parts embedded in the client’s attachment to the internal bad object. The dangers of the therapist’s intention to provide the reparative relational experience are addressed along with the importance of analysis and resolution of the idealizing transference. The importance of the therapist’s function to endure and contain the negative countertransference is also discussed. Some potential interventions aimed at improving personality functioning are considered as are the implications of working with extratransference.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2046975
A. de Graaf
Hi Bill, I had been looking forward to the Transactional Analysis Journal on Schiffian reparenting for quite some time and have now read the various contributions to it. I’m impressed. It is valuable, so many years after the Schiff debacle, to look back on that unfortunate period in TA’s development. I think, though I share your shock, it is powerful that you put Schiff in a historical perspective in your article. It is too easy to make her a scapegoat. An ongoing and thorough ethical review of our work is the best we can do. I like what Laurie Weiss (1994) wrote in her ethical evaluation of reparenting from 1994:
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Pub Date : 2022-03-05DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2036484
R. Stilman
Abstract Technology seems to be everywhere and anywhere in our daily lives. We have devices that allow us to communicate and interact with our work, our social circles, and the world at all times. This article explores and reflects on our attachment to technology and its impact on how we identify and relate to ourselves and others given the advent of sensory-based interactions such as touch, face, and voice recognition. Through the lens of intrapsychic, interpersonal, and systemic processes, the author reflects on the implications of these developments for script theory. He seeks to question, describe, and better understand how these processes affect our sense of reality so that our discourse as a community of practitioners shifts to a curious and accounting process.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-29DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2021.2011035
W. Cornell
Abstract This article undertakes a critical review of the theories and practices developed by Jacqui Schiff and her colleagues. The ethics procedures that resulted in Schiff’s loss of her training status within the International Transactional Analysis Association and subsequent lack of systemic reappraisals of reparenting methods are examined at length. The therapeutic challenges in the face of psychotic processes are then discussed through the lens of contemporary models.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-29DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2022.2012354
W. Cornell, D. Deaconu
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Pub Date : 2021-12-29DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2021.2012355
F. Robin, R. Fryer
Moniek Thunnissen, MD, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) who worked as a psychiatrist for many years at Psychotherapeutic Centre De Viersprong in the Netherlands, where TA was the model of psychotherapy used in the short-term inpatient clinic. While there, she did research into the cost effectiveness of the program, which resulted in her PhD thesis on the long-term effects of that TAbased short-term inpatient therapy and the comparison of two different formats of aftercare. Later Moniek became director of training of psychiatrists at a mental hospital in Bergen op Zoom and then worked in private practice doing therapy, supervision, training, and consultation. From 2007-2009, she was ITAA Vice President Research & Innovation and has also authored/coauthored numerous books and articles. She now wants to direct her energy toward developing the research field in TA, and as part of that she will be joining the TAJ coeditorial team to work specifically on research articles. Her dream is that TA will no longer seen as an “old-fashioned method” or “not evidence based” but that it is taken seriously in the wider field of mental health care.
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