Mark Widdowson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4489074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Widdowson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Widdowson |
| SIGNATURE | WIDDOWSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2404-7087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Inquiry Into the Experience of the Dyslexic Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
Dyslexia causes difficulties in reading, writing, and information processing and is known to impair academic performance unless adaptations are made to the teaching and learning environment. This article explores some of the ways currently practicing transactional analysts who are dyslexic recall and understand their experiences from the earliest recognition of their difference in being dyslexic, through their training, and into their current wor…
The Importance of Research in Transactional Analysis for Transactional Analysts
This article is the author’s acceptance speech for the 2017 ITAA Research Award, which was presented to him at the World TA Conference in Berlin in July 2017. The author argues that research is essential to the wider acceptance of transactional analysis and that research will support the expansion of TA and will act as a powerful marketing force for TA practitioners and training institutes. Therefore, it is in the interests of every member of the…
Letter From the Coeditors
Paradoxical Alliances in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy for Anxiety: A Systematic Adjudicated Case Study
This article considers the use of the technique of paradoxical alliances in transactional analysis psychotherapy with a 37-year-old white French woman over two sets of sessions. The authors hypothesize that this technique, which has not yet been widely used in TA, can be effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders and offers a useful addition to existing transactional analysis methods. The first set of sessions with the client occurred before…
Transactional Analysis for Depression: A Step-By-step Treatment Manual
Avoidance, Vicious Cycles, and Experiential Disconfirmation of Script: Two New Theoretical Concepts and One Mechanism of Change in the Psychotherapy of Depression and Anxiety
This article presents an argument for the clinical and empirical relevance of case study material. Drawing on a series of systematic case studies based in Stiles’s (2007) model of theory building, the author proposes adding the concepts of avoidance and vicious cycles to standard transactional analysis and offers case material to illustrate the usefulness of doing so. Avoidance and vicious cycles are proposed as key mechanisms in the maintenance …
Depression: A Literature Review on Diagnosis, Subtypes, Patterns of Recovery, and Psychotherapeutic Models
This article summarizes data on the prevalence and diagnosis of depression as well as findings from research regarding recovery and relapse from depression. It also offers a summary of models of understanding depression from a range of psychotherapies that are empirically supported for the treatment of depression. Links are made between these models and transactional analysis theory
Transactional analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques
From Client Process to Therapeutic Relating: A Critique of the Process Model and Personality Adaptations
The authors offer a critique of the process model as articulated by Kahler (1975a, 1975b, 1978, 1979, 1996) and the theory of personality adaptations as articulated by Kahler with Capers (1974), Kahler (1982), Ware (1983), and Joines & Stewart (2002). Specifically, they take issue with Joines and Stewart's assertion that narcissism cannot be considered to be a personality adaptation and argue for a consistent conceptualization of personality that…
Metacommunicative Transactions
This article presents metacommunicative transactions as a collaborative relational therapeutic method for exploring the unfolding of the therapeutic relationship in the here and now. The theoretical basis of metacommunicative transactions and their similarity to and difference from empathic transactions (Clark, 1991; Hargaden & Sills, 2002) is discussed. Metacommunicative transactions are firmly located within a framework of transactional analysi…
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From Client Process to Therapeutic Relating: A Critique of the Process Model and Personality Adaptations
The authors offer a critique of the process model as articulated by Kahler (1975a, 1975b, 1978, 1979, 1996) and the theory of personality adaptations as articulated by Kahler with Capers (1974), Kahler (1982), Ware (1983), and Joines & Stewart (2002). Specifically, they take issue with Joines and Stewart's assertion that narcissism cannot be considered to be a personality adaptation and argue for a consistent conceptualization of personality that…
Metacommunicative Transactions
This article presents metacommunicative transactions as a collaborative relational therapeutic method for exploring the unfolding of the therapeutic relationship in the here and now. The theoretical basis of metacommunicative transactions and their similarity to and difference from empathic transactions (Clark, 1991; Hargaden & Sills, 2002) is discussed. Metacommunicative transactions are firmly located within a framework of transactional analysi…
Transactional analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Depression: A Literature Review on Diagnosis, Subtypes, Patterns of Recovery, and Psychotherapeutic Models
This article summarizes data on the prevalence and diagnosis of depression as well as findings from research regarding recovery and relapse from depression. It also offers a summary of models of understanding depression from a range of psychotherapies that are empirically supported for the treatment of depression. Links are made between these models and transactional analysis theory
Avoidance, Vicious Cycles, and Experiential Disconfirmation of Script: Two New Theoretical Concepts and One Mechanism of Change in the Psychotherapy of Depression and Anxiety
This article presents an argument for the clinical and empirical relevance of case study material. Drawing on a series of systematic case studies based in Stiles’s (2007) model of theory building, the author proposes adding the concepts of avoidance and vicious cycles to standard transactional analysis and offers case material to illustrate the usefulness of doing so. Avoidance and vicious cycles are proposed as key mechanisms in the maintenance …
Transactional Analysis for Depression: A Step-By-step Treatment Manual
Paradoxical Alliances in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy for Anxiety: A Systematic Adjudicated Case Study
This article considers the use of the technique of paradoxical alliances in transactional analysis psychotherapy with a 37-year-old white French woman over two sets of sessions. The authors hypothesize that this technique, which has not yet been widely used in TA, can be effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders and offers a useful addition to existing transactional analysis methods. The first set of sessions with the client occurred before…
Letter From the Coeditors
The Importance of Research in Transactional Analysis for Transactional Analysts
This article is the author’s acceptance speech for the 2017 ITAA Research Award, which was presented to him at the World TA Conference in Berlin in July 2017. The author argues that research is essential to the wider acceptance of transactional analysis and that research will support the expansion of TA and will act as a powerful marketing force for TA practitioners and training institutes. Therefore, it is in the interests of every member of the…
An Inquiry Into the Experience of the Dyslexic Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
Dyslexia causes difficulties in reading, writing, and information processing and is known to impair academic performance unless adaptations are made to the teaching and learning environment. This article explores some of the ways currently practicing transactional analysts who are dyslexic recall and understand their experiences from the earliest recognition of their difference in being dyslexic, through their training, and into their current wor…
Transactional analysis (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (8 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Transactional leadership (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Anxiety (2 works)