Retrieving a Flourishing Psychotherapy

A Transactional-Cybernetic Meditation on Transactional Analysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20178617
AutoresG Barnes (0000-0002-5021-1944, Barnes Hospital, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas233-247
Fecha de publicación2000-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/036215370003000308
OpenAlexW2412578635
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas11

This article offers a second-order transactional-cybernetic study of transactional analysis as a self-organizing system. A transaction is defined as a circle that includes individuals and their environment, one in which observers, observing, and observations are within the transaction. The central questions of this study involve occasions when transactional analysis has turned back on itself and the terms of relationship have changed. Three instances are discussed—Berne's death, the theory of schizophrenia, and the theory of alcoholism. This article offers a comparison between practices of transactional analysis in the 1970s, when its theory of therapy generated diversity, and later practices arising out of its theory of personality. The proposal is made to retrieve certain patterns of therapy that contributed to the legitimacy of transactional analysis as an effective psychotherapy modality

Database transaction · Epistemology · Flourishing · Meditation · Psychotherapist · Transactional analysis · Transactional leadership · Computer Science · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy