Ken Woods
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8926655 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ken Woods |
| NOMBRES | Ken |
| APELLIDO | Woods |
| FIRMA | WOODS K |
| AFILIACIONES | Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Single‐Day Couples Intervention for Veterans and Their Romantic Partners
PURPOSE: Separation and divorce are associated with deterioration of mental and physical health. Veterans are >60% more likely to experience separation/divorce compared to non-Veterans. Access to couple-based treatment is limited due to shortage of trained therapists, high costs, travel burdens, and stigma-challenges commonly exacerbated in rural settings. METHODS: This study assessed the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a …
Letters to the Coeditors
Surrender as a Group Norm
Freud described that each of us has an innate libidinal drive and an innate aggressive drive, but he failed to anchor these within the context of the drive to surrender to the group norm or conscience. This article addresses the consequences of failing to surrender to the innate drive to surrender to the group norm, good or bad, and the peace derived from surrender to a group norm, whether good or bad
The Stroking School of Transactional Analysis
The author describes the social climate of positive stroking he encountered in his early involvement with transactional analysis. This influence was contagious and moved him from his initial instinct toward confrontation and interpretation to a pattern of stroking that evolved into games of “Gee You're Wonderful, Professor” and “You're Uncommonly Perceptive.” He concludes by discussing the events that led him to return to his initial orientation
The Therapist and the Erotic
Patients in therapy may displace their felt need for maternal holding onto a need for sex and then present in a sexually provocative manner. In response, the confused therapist may confront the patient for playing games while other therapists may exploit the situation. The author suggests that the appropriate response of the ethical and informed therapist is to treat the patient's confusion
Correlations between Psychoanalysis and Transactional Analysis
This article considers the ways that psychoanalytic psychotherapies and transactional analytic psychotherapies overlap. It also describes how in psychoanalysis the analysis of superego defenses has supplanted the analysis of id derivatives. Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen WoodsKen Woods isretired from private practice and enjoys having time to pursue other interests, including clinical research and writing. He can be reached at 21 …
The Interface between Berne and Langs
This article describes a four-step formulation for addressing the unconscious content of games and pastimes. This model is based, in part, on the psychoanalytic psychotherapy developed by Robert Langs. While the work of Eric Berne addresses the conscious content of psychological games and pastimes, Langs's work addresses their unconscious, highly subjective content. Using both provides transactional analysts with a more complete model for address…
Primary and Secondary Gains from Games
The primary gain from a game is the defensive function it provides. Analyzing a game only in terms of its secondary “gains from illness” may induce a profound state of despair in the patient. This article addresses the futility of analyzing games in terms of secondary gains alone. Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen WoodsKen Woods is currently semiretired, having closed down most of his private practice. He formerly retired from conduc…
OKness as it Pertains to the Manic Defense
There is a tendency in some quarters to assume that clinicians are responsible in all cases for reassuring and assisting patients to somehow feel OK about themselves. Such an understanding of the therapist's role may preclude recognition of the fact that for some patients, this sense of unconditional OKness may lead to further acting out. This article cautions clinicians to recognize that the patient's sense of OKness may have an inverse relation…
Some Reflections on Simple OKness
The transactional analysis formulation of "I'm OK, You're OK" can become jargon when it is used simplistically to define the selfhood of the individual. The authors contend that selfhood is more complex than that and illustrate this idea with examples of how some mass murderers have an elevated sense of their OKness while some philanthropists struggle with a sense of their not-OKness. The authors conclude that the complexity of selfhood cannot be…
The Duplex Transaction and Pastiming
The perception of pastiming as merely an innocuous pattern of social stroking is inaccurate. The pastime also serves as a defense, specifically, as the carrier of a duplex transaction. In this article the author considers pastiming as a duplex transaction and outlines a four-step procedure for interpreting the latent and unconscious content of the duplex transaction
A Case Presentation Using Game Theory and Levels of Defense
This article describes psychotherapy with a patient who exhibited symptoms of sexual identity confusion, perverse sexual activity, and character disorder. The therapy was concerned primarily with the underlying three-layered defensive structure of the patient's neurotic condition, which was revealed in the games the patient initiated with others, including the therapist
Freud's Contribution to the Concept of the Natural Child
This article considers some of the author's reservations about the way the concept of the Natural Child is sometimes used in transactional analysis. This is followed by a discussion of the relevance of Freudian dream analysis in understanding the long-repressed wishes and desires of the Natural Child state of the ego
Fascination as a Result of Confluence of Conscious and Unconscious States of the Ego
This article considers the psychological mechanism by which some people come to regard sadistic and murderous leaders with fascination. The initial formation of the ego in the species and in the individual is reviewed. Berne (1961, p. xix) reported that ego states of former age levels are maintained in potential existence within the personality. The authors describe how these early, primitive states of the ego reside in an unconscious state withi…
The Defensive Function of the Game Scenario
This article illustrates how confronting or aborting a patient's game is nontherapeutic. It suggests that game analysis proper actually consists of analyzing rather than confronting games. It defines the three-layered defensive structure of the neurotic condition and recommends analyzing the defensive function of the game as well as the encoded, unconscious communication contained within the manifest content of the conflicted speech comprising a …
Passion, the Natural Child, and the “Hot Potato”
The passions residing in the Natural Child of a parent may be passed on to his or her child as a “hot potato” (English, 1969). Such “hot potatoes” may not only have a profound influence on the child's formation of character structure but may also be a significant factor in the child's formation of script
A Retrospective on States of the Ego
This article addresses the distinction between the subjective ego experience and the objectification of the ego experience. The need for such a distinction is demonstrated by case material, and the beginnings of the evolution toward a deeper understanding of psychic structure are described. These beginnings start with a consideration of the observable states of the ego, which have been metaphorically defined as the Parent, Adult, and Child ego st…
The Danger of Sadomasochism in the Reparenting of Psychotics
The danger of a sadomasochistic merger between therapist and patient is inherent in any treatment approach. This article begins with a consideration of psychic masochism and a brief overview of the work of John Rosen (1953), who popularized the use of parenting techniques with psychotics. The use, or misuse, of such techniques with psychotics may result in the establishment of a sadomasochistic merger between therapist and patient. Four pathologi…
Projective Identification and Game Analysis
The psychoanalytic concept of projective identification refers to the unconscious defensive function of the interactions between two or more individuals. This concept is usually considered complex and difficult to grasp. However, recognizing and considering the full course and culmination of a client's game (game analysis) provides the clinician with less difficult access to and recognition of the projective identifications inherent in such patte…
The Indirect Analysis of Manifestations of Transference and Countertransference
Clinicians are often judged by the therapeutic language they speak rather than by the results they achieve. In some agencies, for example, the transactional analyst may find it necessary to speak in psychoanalytic terms while thinking TA. This article discusses how an indirect TA approach based on the game plan (James, 1973) can be effective in recognizing and treating manifestations of transference and countertransference in short-term transacti…
Treatment of Borderline Conditions
An arrest-in-development at the symbiotic stage characterizes borderline conditions. Use of this model, rather than the more familiar triadic Parent-Adult-Child, facilitates work with these clients. Adaptation to powerful figures is not a new response for them. A recognition important for the therapist to retain is that the dynamics and structural aspects of the borderline are consistent, rather than being chaotic as their appearance often sugges…
The Offender
Emphasizes the critical significance of the 1st interview with offenders, and attributes failures late in treatment to errors made by the therapist during the initial interview. Emphasizes the necessity of the therapist establishing clearly that s/he is willing only to address what the client is doing at this time to prepare his/her mind for the commission of offenses now. Describes specific approaches for establishing therapeutic rapport with th…
Ego Splitting and the TA Diagram
Modifies the diagramming of the Child ego state to accomodate the psychoanalytic concept of ego splitting. Hypothesizes a sequence of events, originating from an early awareness of lack of control
Moving Away from Attack Therapy
“The Game”—an aspect of Attack Therapy—is described as a sophisticated version of “Courtroom.” Clients who assume the roles of Smoothy, Brash, or Unimportant in “The Game” tend to continue to act out these roles in criminal endeavors after leaving the therapy group. “The Game” is considered to be ineffective for much of the criminal population with which it is used. A structural analysis of C2 is described, and identifies the negative constellati…
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Moving Away from Attack Therapy
“The Game”—an aspect of Attack Therapy—is described as a sophisticated version of “Courtroom.” Clients who assume the roles of Smoothy, Brash, or Unimportant in “The Game” tend to continue to act out these roles in criminal endeavors after leaving the therapy group. “The Game” is considered to be ineffective for much of the criminal population with which it is used. A structural analysis of C2 is described, and identifies the negative constellati…
Ego Splitting and the TA Diagram
Modifies the diagramming of the Child ego state to accomodate the psychoanalytic concept of ego splitting. Hypothesizes a sequence of events, originating from an early awareness of lack of control
Treatment of Borderline Conditions
An arrest-in-development at the symbiotic stage characterizes borderline conditions. Use of this model, rather than the more familiar triadic Parent-Adult-Child, facilitates work with these clients. Adaptation to powerful figures is not a new response for them. A recognition important for the therapist to retain is that the dynamics and structural aspects of the borderline are consistent, rather than being chaotic as their appearance often sugges…
The Offender
Emphasizes the critical significance of the 1st interview with offenders, and attributes failures late in treatment to errors made by the therapist during the initial interview. Emphasizes the necessity of the therapist establishing clearly that s/he is willing only to address what the client is doing at this time to prepare his/her mind for the commission of offenses now. Describes specific approaches for establishing therapeutic rapport with th…
The Indirect Analysis of Manifestations of Transference and Countertransference
Clinicians are often judged by the therapeutic language they speak rather than by the results they achieve. In some agencies, for example, the transactional analyst may find it necessary to speak in psychoanalytic terms while thinking TA. This article discusses how an indirect TA approach based on the game plan (James, 1973) can be effective in recognizing and treating manifestations of transference and countertransference in short-term transacti…
Projective Identification and Game Analysis
The psychoanalytic concept of projective identification refers to the unconscious defensive function of the interactions between two or more individuals. This concept is usually considered complex and difficult to grasp. However, recognizing and considering the full course and culmination of a client's game (game analysis) provides the clinician with less difficult access to and recognition of the projective identifications inherent in such patte…
The Danger of Sadomasochism in the Reparenting of Psychotics
The danger of a sadomasochistic merger between therapist and patient is inherent in any treatment approach. This article begins with a consideration of psychic masochism and a brief overview of the work of John Rosen (1953), who popularized the use of parenting techniques with psychotics. The use, or misuse, of such techniques with psychotics may result in the establishment of a sadomasochistic merger between therapist and patient. Four pathologi…
A Retrospective on States of the Ego
This article addresses the distinction between the subjective ego experience and the objectification of the ego experience. The need for such a distinction is demonstrated by case material, and the beginnings of the evolution toward a deeper understanding of psychic structure are described. These beginnings start with a consideration of the observable states of the ego, which have been metaphorically defined as the Parent, Adult, and Child ego st…
The Defensive Function of the Game Scenario
This article illustrates how confronting or aborting a patient's game is nontherapeutic. It suggests that game analysis proper actually consists of analyzing rather than confronting games. It defines the three-layered defensive structure of the neurotic condition and recommends analyzing the defensive function of the game as well as the encoded, unconscious communication contained within the manifest content of the conflicted speech comprising a …
Passion, the Natural Child, and the “Hot Potato”
The passions residing in the Natural Child of a parent may be passed on to his or her child as a “hot potato” (English, 1969). Such “hot potatoes” may not only have a profound influence on the child's formation of character structure but may also be a significant factor in the child's formation of script
A Case Presentation Using Game Theory and Levels of Defense
This article describes psychotherapy with a patient who exhibited symptoms of sexual identity confusion, perverse sexual activity, and character disorder. The therapy was concerned primarily with the underlying three-layered defensive structure of the patient's neurotic condition, which was revealed in the games the patient initiated with others, including the therapist
Freud's Contribution to the Concept of the Natural Child
This article considers some of the author's reservations about the way the concept of the Natural Child is sometimes used in transactional analysis. This is followed by a discussion of the relevance of Freudian dream analysis in understanding the long-repressed wishes and desires of the Natural Child state of the ego
Fascination as a Result of Confluence of Conscious and Unconscious States of the Ego
This article considers the psychological mechanism by which some people come to regard sadistic and murderous leaders with fascination. The initial formation of the ego in the species and in the individual is reviewed. Berne (1961, p. xix) reported that ego states of former age levels are maintained in potential existence within the personality. The authors describe how these early, primitive states of the ego reside in an unconscious state withi…
Primary and Secondary Gains from Games
The primary gain from a game is the defensive function it provides. Analyzing a game only in terms of its secondary “gains from illness” may induce a profound state of despair in the patient. This article addresses the futility of analyzing games in terms of secondary gains alone. Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen WoodsKen Woods is currently semiretired, having closed down most of his private practice. He formerly retired from conduc…
OKness as it Pertains to the Manic Defense
There is a tendency in some quarters to assume that clinicians are responsible in all cases for reassuring and assisting patients to somehow feel OK about themselves. Such an understanding of the therapist's role may preclude recognition of the fact that for some patients, this sense of unconditional OKness may lead to further acting out. This article cautions clinicians to recognize that the patient's sense of OKness may have an inverse relation…
Some Reflections on Simple OKness
The transactional analysis formulation of "I'm OK, You're OK" can become jargon when it is used simplistically to define the selfhood of the individual. The authors contend that selfhood is more complex than that and illustrate this idea with examples of how some mass murderers have an elevated sense of their OKness while some philanthropists struggle with a sense of their not-OKness. The authors conclude that the complexity of selfhood cannot be…
The Duplex Transaction and Pastiming
The perception of pastiming as merely an innocuous pattern of social stroking is inaccurate. The pastime also serves as a defense, specifically, as the carrier of a duplex transaction. In this article the author considers pastiming as a duplex transaction and outlines a four-step procedure for interpreting the latent and unconscious content of the duplex transaction
The Interface between Berne and Langs
This article describes a four-step formulation for addressing the unconscious content of games and pastimes. This model is based, in part, on the psychoanalytic psychotherapy developed by Robert Langs. While the work of Eric Berne addresses the conscious content of psychological games and pastimes, Langs's work addresses their unconscious, highly subjective content. Using both provides transactional analysts with a more complete model for address…
The Therapist and the Erotic
Patients in therapy may displace their felt need for maternal holding onto a need for sex and then present in a sexually provocative manner. In response, the confused therapist may confront the patient for playing games while other therapists may exploit the situation. The author suggests that the appropriate response of the ethical and informed therapist is to treat the patient's confusion
Correlations between Psychoanalysis and Transactional Analysis
This article considers the ways that psychoanalytic psychotherapies and transactional analytic psychotherapies overlap. It also describes how in psychoanalysis the analysis of superego defenses has supplanted the analysis of id derivatives. Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen WoodsKen Woods isretired from private practice and enjoys having time to pursue other interests, including clinical research and writing. He can be reached at 21 …
Surrender as a Group Norm
Freud described that each of us has an innate libidinal drive and an innate aggressive drive, but he failed to anchor these within the context of the drive to surrender to the group norm or conscience. This article addresses the consequences of failing to surrender to the innate drive to surrender to the group norm, good or bad, and the peace derived from surrender to a group norm, whether good or bad
The Stroking School of Transactional Analysis
The author describes the social climate of positive stroking he encountered in his early involvement with transactional analysis. This influence was contagious and moved him from his initial instinct toward confrontation and interpretation to a pattern of stroking that evolved into games of “Gee You're Wonderful, Professor” and “You're Uncommonly Perceptive.” He concludes by discussing the events that led him to return to his initial orientation
Letters to the Coeditors
Single‐Day Couples Intervention for Veterans and Their Romantic Partners
PURPOSE: Separation and divorce are associated with deterioration of mental and physical health. Veterans are >60% more likely to experience separation/divorce compared to non-Veterans. Access to couple-based treatment is limited due to shortage of trained therapists, high costs, travel burdens, and stigma-challenges commonly exacerbated in rural settings. METHODS: This study assessed the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a …
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