Richard G Erskine
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4489669 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard G Erskine |
| NOMBRES | Richard G |
| APELLIDO | Erskine |
| FIRMA | ERSKINE R G |
| AFILIACIONES | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2896-4165 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
The Art and Science of Relationship
Beyond Empathy
The Life Script Trilogy
This acceptance speech reviews the historical influences underlying the trilogy of publications on life script for which the author received the 2018 Eric Berne Memorial Award. Life scripts are composed of unconscious systems of psychological organization and self-regulation developed as a result of cumulative failures in significant dependent relationships. The principles of a developmentally based, relationally focused psychotherapy that foster…
Transactional Analysis in Contemporary Psychotherapy
What Do You Say Before You Say Good-Bye? The Psychotherapy of Grief
Relational loss, death, and mourning are all part of life and human relationships. Protracted and compounded grief occurs when something interferes with the normal grieving process. The psychotherapy of grief is described and two primary relational approaches are emphasized: face-to-face psychotherapy and the use of internal imagery via the empty-chair technique. In both approaches, the aim is to provide a balanced expression of affect, including…
Relational Group Process
This article presents some of the principles of relational group psychotherapy. Several models have influenced the development of relational group psychotherapy, including therapy by the group, therapy by interpretation, therapy in the group, and therapy through the group. The dialectic between the feedback and the person-centered trends in group therapy is described, and an integration of models is proposed. Relational group psychotherapy emphas…
Integrative Psychotherapy in Action
Life scripts
Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns
Eric Berne originally described life scripts as being formed from the primal dramas and implicit protocols of infancy and early childhood. John Bowlby's attachment theory and the supporting research provide a theoretical integration with script theory and suggest the necessity of a developmental focus in psychotherapy. Secure, anxious/ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized, and isolated attachment patterns are described in relation to life scripts an…
The Culture of Transactional Analysis
This keynote address, originally delivered on 8 August 2008 at the TA World Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, emphasizes how culture is acquired in three ways: formally, informally, and technically. Transactional analysis is examined as a unique culture that is in the process of continually changing. The author takes a historical perspective to describe how new theories and methods are integrated with core concepts to provide an ever more…
Cooperation, Relationship, and Change
This keynote speech explores various aspects of human relationships and cooperation that are dependent on interpersonal connection and involvement. Eight principles of relational group psychotherapy and four homeostatic functions are considered as elements of cooperation, relationship, and change. The eight concepts of tolerance, humility, compassion, conscientiousness, curiosity, graciousness, creativity, and optimism are described as enhancers …
Psychotherapy of Unconscious Experience
Freud defined the unconscious as a result of repression. However, recent findings in neurology and developmental psychology indicate that unconscious experience may be composed of presymbolic, subsymbolic, implicit, and procedural forms of memory, as well as being the result of trauma. In this article, preverbal, never-verbalized, unacknowledged, nonmemory, and avoided verbalization are categories of unconscious experience used to describe two ps…
Core Concepts of an Integrative Transactional Analysis
In integrative transactional analysis, the conceptual constructs, theories, and subtheories are organized into a theory of motivation, a theory of personality, and a theory of methods. The theory of motivation examines human functioning and the need for stimuli, structure, and relationship. The theory of personality describes internal and external contact, interruptions to contact, life script, and ego function. The theory of methods emphasizes t…
Bonding in Relationship
This case study of the psychotherapy of a client with violent fantasies describes the effects of bonding and attachment in forming a therapeutic relationship. Interwoven throughout the case study is a discussion of the therapeutic methods of phenomenological inquiry, affective and developmental attunement, responsiveness to relational needs, and an analysis of the psychological functions of fantasizing
Psychological Function, Relational Needs, and Transferential Resolution
Hargaden's (2001) case study, “There Ain't No Cure for Love: The Psychotherapy of an Erotic Transference,” provided the clinical material on which to base this discussion of erotic transference as an obsession. Obsessions, repetitive fantasies, rigid behavioral patterns, and habitualized feelings are all maintained because they provide significant psychological functions. Through a relational therapy and phenomenological inquiry the therapist fac…
The Schizoid Process
This article was originally presented as the introduction to the continuing education symposium on “The Schizoid Process” held on 20 August 1999 during the International Transactional Analysis Association annual conference in San Francisco. Dr. Erskine served as the symposium moderator
Withdrawal, Connection, and Therapeutic Touch
This article presents excerpts from a roundtable discussion on the schizoid process held as part of a continuing education symposium at the August 1999 ITAA annual conference in San Francisco. Consideration is given to the importance of a number of factors in work with schizoid clients, including safety, autonomy, the therapeutic use of both physical and nonphysical touch, rage, the intersubjective nature of therapy, projective identification, un…
A Matrix of Relationships
The Therapeutic Relationship
This article suggests that transactional analysis is enhanced by a consistent and unified theoretical link between motivation and personality theories from which methods are directly derived. The drives for stimulus, structure, and relationship, as described by Eric Berne, are significantly interwoven, interactive, and interdependent, forming the foundation for a theory of human motivation. The premise that healing is in the relationship is prese…
Methods of an Integrative Psychotherapy
The concept of a contactful, interpersonal therapeutic relationship is the central premise in the practice of integrative psychotherapy. Inquiry, attunement, and involvement constitute the methods of a contact-oriented, relationship-based psychotherapy. Eight relational needs are defined, and reciprocal psychotherapeutic responses are described. The theoretical basis for an integrative psychotherapy includes the concepts of ego states, transferen…
The Dynamics of Shame
In excerpts from a roundtable discussion on shame several different viewpoints, theoretical perspectives, and clinical methods are presented and contrasted. Participants argue variously that shame
Shame and Self-Righteousness
Shame and self-righteousness are intrapsychic dynamics that help the individual defend against a rupture in relationship. This article discusses how, from a script perspective, shame is comprised of the script belief “Something's wrong with me,” formed as a result of messages and decisions, conclusions in response to impossible demands, and defensive hope and control. In addition, from an ego state perspective, shame involves a diminished self-co…
Inquiry, Attunement, and Involvement in the Psychotherapy of Dissociation
Dissociation is a psychological process that cognitively and emotionally allows a person to defend against an experience or memory. Dissociation occurs during traumatic experiences in which there is also the lack of a reparative relationship. A contact-oriented relationship therapy allows for the dissolution of dissociation and integration of the trauma. This article describes the therapeutic engagements of inquiry, attunement, and involvement an…
Transference and Transactions
The concepts of transference and transactions are examined using Eric Berne's theories of ego states as a framework. Theoretical distinctions between transferential and transactional functions are made and the concepts of intrapsychic conflict and ego state diagnosis are elaborated. Definitions of transference are formulated based on Berne's original intrapsychic concepts. A theoretical basis is established for a comprehensive psychotherapy that …
Ego State Theory
In excerpts from a roundtable discussion of transactional analysis theory ego state definitions and descriptions are contrasted. The authors discuss their opinions about various ego state concepts and describe how theory lays the foundation for psychotherapy methodology
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The Racket System
To resolve some discrepancies in rackets theory and its place within TA theory and treatment, this article proposes the addition of Racket Analysis and explains how the Racket System is a model for identifying and dealing with racket-related phenomena. The Racket System is self-reinforcing and distorted, based on script, and consists of Script Beliefs and Feelings, Rackety Displays, and Reinforcing Memories.
Identification and Cure of Stroke Ripoff
Stroke ripoff is a way of getting attention from another person whether or not that person freely wants to give the attention. People who engage in stroke ripoff often experience rejection from others. Therapy involves teaching the concept of stroke ripoff, confronting the behavior and providing for emotional closure of unmet early stroking needs
Script Cure
Script is a life plan based on decisions which limit a person's ability to problem-solve and relate intimately with people. An integrative therapy view of script cure emphasizes changes in overt and internal behavior, the cognitive processes, the emotional experiences and the physical restrictions carried within the body
Ego State Analysis
Reviews and describes various concepts of ego states proposed by Eric Berne and other TA theorists. Suggests the four basic models of ego states to be the conceptual, the structural, the functional
Supervision of Psychotherapy
Provides a framework within which supervisors of clinical trainees can organize their approaches to supervision according to the trainee's level of professional skill. Stages of learning which are identified include acquiring skills, building confidence, gaining an identity as a therapist, refining treatment planning, resolving countertransference issues, and integrating multiple theories into clinical practice. Each stage is discussed and specif…
The Ultimate Psychological Concern
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard G. ErskineRichard G. Erskine, PhD, Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, New York, NY
Ego State Theory
In excerpts from a roundtable discussion of transactional analysis theory ego state definitions and descriptions are contrasted. The authors discuss their opinions about various ego state concepts and describe how theory lays the foundation for psychotherapy methodology
Ego Structure, Intrapsychic Function, and Defense Mechanisms
Berne's major contribution to psychotherapy theory was his development of the concept of subdivisions of the ego. More recent writers have deviated from Berne's description of ego states. In this article states of the ego are defined, intrapsychic functions are clarified, and the role of defense mechanisms is reexamined. Self-generated ego images are explained and their internal influence described. The article concludes with a definition of heal…
Transference and Transactions
The concepts of transference and transactions are examined using Eric Berne's theories of ego states as a framework. Theoretical distinctions between transferential and transactional functions are made and the concepts of intrapsychic conflict and ego state diagnosis are elaborated. Definitions of transference are formulated based on Berne's original intrapsychic concepts. A theoretical basis is established for a comprehensive psychotherapy that …
Inquiry, Attunement, and Involvement in the Psychotherapy of Dissociation
Dissociation is a psychological process that cognitively and emotionally allows a person to defend against an experience or memory. Dissociation occurs during traumatic experiences in which there is also the lack of a reparative relationship. A contact-oriented relationship therapy allows for the dissolution of dissociation and integration of the trauma. This article describes the therapeutic engagements of inquiry, attunement, and involvement an…
The Dynamics of Shame
In excerpts from a roundtable discussion on shame several different viewpoints, theoretical perspectives, and clinical methods are presented and contrasted. Participants argue variously that shame
Shame and Self-Righteousness
Shame and self-righteousness are intrapsychic dynamics that help the individual defend against a rupture in relationship. This article discusses how, from a script perspective, shame is comprised of the script belief “Something's wrong with me,” formed as a result of messages and decisions, conclusions in response to impossible demands, and defensive hope and control. In addition, from an ego state perspective, shame involves a diminished self-co…
Methods of an Integrative Psychotherapy
The concept of a contactful, interpersonal therapeutic relationship is the central premise in the practice of integrative psychotherapy. Inquiry, attunement, and involvement constitute the methods of a contact-oriented, relationship-based psychotherapy. Eight relational needs are defined, and reciprocal psychotherapeutic responses are described. The theoretical basis for an integrative psychotherapy includes the concepts of ego states, transferen…
The Therapeutic Relationship
This article suggests that transactional analysis is enhanced by a consistent and unified theoretical link between motivation and personality theories from which methods are directly derived. The drives for stimulus, structure, and relationship, as described by Eric Berne, are significantly interwoven, interactive, and interdependent, forming the foundation for a theory of human motivation. The premise that healing is in the relationship is prese…
A Matrix of Relationships
Psychological Function, Relational Needs, and Transferential Resolution
Hargaden's (2001) case study, “There Ain't No Cure for Love: The Psychotherapy of an Erotic Transference,” provided the clinical material on which to base this discussion of erotic transference as an obsession. Obsessions, repetitive fantasies, rigid behavioral patterns, and habitualized feelings are all maintained because they provide significant psychological functions. Through a relational therapy and phenomenological inquiry the therapist fac…
The Schizoid Process
This article was originally presented as the introduction to the continuing education symposium on “The Schizoid Process” held on 20 August 1999 during the International Transactional Analysis Association annual conference in San Francisco. Dr. Erskine served as the symposium moderator
Withdrawal, Connection, and Therapeutic Touch
This article presents excerpts from a roundtable discussion on the schizoid process held as part of a continuing education symposium at the August 1999 ITAA annual conference in San Francisco. Consideration is given to the importance of a number of factors in work with schizoid clients, including safety, autonomy, the therapeutic use of both physical and nonphysical touch, rage, the intersubjective nature of therapy, projective identification, un…
Bonding in Relationship
This case study of the psychotherapy of a client with violent fantasies describes the effects of bonding and attachment in forming a therapeutic relationship. Interwoven throughout the case study is a discussion of the therapeutic methods of phenomenological inquiry, affective and developmental attunement, responsiveness to relational needs, and an analysis of the psychological functions of fantasizing
Core Concepts of an Integrative Transactional Analysis
In integrative transactional analysis, the conceptual constructs, theories, and subtheories are organized into a theory of motivation, a theory of personality, and a theory of methods. The theory of motivation examines human functioning and the need for stimuli, structure, and relationship. The theory of personality describes internal and external contact, interruptions to contact, life script, and ego function. The theory of methods emphasizes t…
Cooperation, Relationship, and Change
This keynote speech explores various aspects of human relationships and cooperation that are dependent on interpersonal connection and involvement. Eight principles of relational group psychotherapy and four homeostatic functions are considered as elements of cooperation, relationship, and change. The eight concepts of tolerance, humility, compassion, conscientiousness, curiosity, graciousness, creativity, and optimism are described as enhancers …
Psychotherapy of Unconscious Experience
Freud defined the unconscious as a result of repression. However, recent findings in neurology and developmental psychology indicate that unconscious experience may be composed of presymbolic, subsymbolic, implicit, and procedural forms of memory, as well as being the result of trauma. In this article, preverbal, never-verbalized, unacknowledged, nonmemory, and avoided verbalization are categories of unconscious experience used to describe two ps…
Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns
Eric Berne originally described life scripts as being formed from the primal dramas and implicit protocols of infancy and early childhood. John Bowlby's attachment theory and the supporting research provide a theoretical integration with script theory and suggest the necessity of a developmental focus in psychotherapy. Secure, anxious/ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized, and isolated attachment patterns are described in relation to life scripts an…
The Culture of Transactional Analysis
This keynote address, originally delivered on 8 August 2008 at the TA World Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, emphasizes how culture is acquired in three ways: formally, informally, and technically. Transactional analysis is examined as a unique culture that is in the process of continually changing. The author takes a historical perspective to describe how new theories and methods are integrated with core concepts to provide an ever more…
Life scripts
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