Karen Minikin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6354090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Minikin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Minikin |
| SIGNATURE | MINIKIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clinical Insights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Letter From the Coeditors
All men and all women have their secret gardens, whose gates they guard against the profane invasion of the vulgar crowd. These are visual pictures of what they would do if they could do as they pl...
The Personal and the Political
This is the keynote speech from the TA Cumbrian conference that took place on 25 February 2023. It concerns the personal legacy of social, economic, and political contexts as lived through the lives of previous generations. It is delivered through a radical and relational lens and draws on past and current thinking about alienation. The author makes reference to features from her father’s life that have come to hold significant meaning for her
Leadership, Intersectionality, and Feminism
This essay takes a radical-relational perspective on systemic, institutional, and individual leadership. It identifies the function of intersectionality and feminism in decoding normative mindsets in leadership. Then, using the ideas of power, authority, and responsibility, the author describes the relational psychodynamics between the powerful and the vulnerable. Two examples are offered to illustrate how these dynamics operate. The first descri…
Letter From the Coeditors
Sometimes we may be asked, by trainees, colleagues in our own field, or in casual encounters, what is the place of transactional analysis (TA) when it comes to the big issues of our world now, or h
Commentary on “War
This commentary is a reflection on Keith Tudor’s review, critique, and development of Berne’s theory of group dynamics and its application to survival, especially during war. The author expresses appreciation for Tudor’s thorough review of writing on sociopolitical themes in transactional analysis and reflects on his development of Berne’s theory
Letter From the Coeditor
Letter From the Coeditors
Letter From the Coeditors
Treatment Planning
This article considers a treatment plan written many years ago and the impact of the passage of time on the author’s philosophy and way of thinking about “cure.” A clinical case, active at the time of composing the plan, is used to illustrate the original. Then, revisiting the case from the perspective of radical and relational work, the author compares and considers how the process of recovery might be thought about in present times
Relative Privilege and the Seduction of Normativity
Traditional ways of understanding relational unconscious dynamics have not always accounted for power dynamics, particularly those connected with social identity. This article explores the role of identity and introduces the idea of relative privilege. The author argues privileged identities are amplified, whereas marginalized identities are minimized because of a desire for inclusion and belonging to the norm. The norm is positioned as a dominan…
Radical Relational Psychiatry
The radical psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s challenged the medical model of psychotherapy, positioning alienation as the root cause of all mental and social distress. Both cause and solution were seen as residing in social relationships. Currently, we are seeing a rise in political tyranny in many quarters of the globe. This has inspired political engagement because of polarizing positions. In society this encourages passion for values…
Multiple Contemporaneous Games in Psychotherapy
Taking a two-person (Stark, 1999 StarkM. (1999). Modes of therapeutic action. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. [Google Scholar]) and political approach to psychotherapy, the authors discuss the potential for multiple games occurring contemporaneously in the therapeutic dyad and illustrate the psychodynamics of such games by referencing ego state relational units (Little, 2006). The article describes how an overly simplistic approach to supporting au…
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Multiple Contemporaneous Games in Psychotherapy
Taking a two-person (Stark, 1999 StarkM. (1999). Modes of therapeutic action. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. [Google Scholar]) and political approach to psychotherapy, the authors discuss the potential for multiple games occurring contemporaneously in the therapeutic dyad and illustrate the psychodynamics of such games by referencing ego state relational units (Little, 2006). The article describes how an overly simplistic approach to supporting au…
Radical Relational Psychiatry
The radical psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s challenged the medical model of psychotherapy, positioning alienation as the root cause of all mental and social distress. Both cause and solution were seen as residing in social relationships. Currently, we are seeing a rise in political tyranny in many quarters of the globe. This has inspired political engagement because of polarizing positions. In society this encourages passion for values…
Letter From the Coeditors
Treatment Planning
This article considers a treatment plan written many years ago and the impact of the passage of time on the author’s philosophy and way of thinking about “cure.” A clinical case, active at the time of composing the plan, is used to illustrate the original. Then, revisiting the case from the perspective of radical and relational work, the author compares and considers how the process of recovery might be thought about in present times
Relative Privilege and the Seduction of Normativity
Traditional ways of understanding relational unconscious dynamics have not always accounted for power dynamics, particularly those connected with social identity. This article explores the role of identity and introduces the idea of relative privilege. The author argues privileged identities are amplified, whereas marginalized identities are minimized because of a desire for inclusion and belonging to the norm. The norm is positioned as a dominan…
Letter From the Coeditors
Letter From the Coeditors
Sometimes we may be asked, by trainees, colleagues in our own field, or in casual encounters, what is the place of transactional analysis (TA) when it comes to the big issues of our world now, or h
Commentary on “War
This commentary is a reflection on Keith Tudor’s review, critique, and development of Berne’s theory of group dynamics and its application to survival, especially during war. The author expresses appreciation for Tudor’s thorough review of writing on sociopolitical themes in transactional analysis and reflects on his development of Berne’s theory
Letter From the Coeditor
The Personal and the Political
This is the keynote speech from the TA Cumbrian conference that took place on 25 February 2023. It concerns the personal legacy of social, economic, and political contexts as lived through the lives of previous generations. It is delivered through a radical and relational lens and draws on past and current thinking about alienation. The author makes reference to features from her father’s life that have come to hold significant meaning for her
Leadership, Intersectionality, and Feminism
This essay takes a radical-relational perspective on systemic, institutional, and individual leadership. It identifies the function of intersectionality and feminism in decoding normative mindsets in leadership. Then, using the ideas of power, authority, and responsibility, the author describes the relational psychodynamics between the powerful and the vulnerable. Two examples are offered to illustrate how these dynamics operate. The first descri…
Letter From the Coeditors
All men and all women have their secret gardens, whose gates they guard against the profane invasion of the vulgar crowd. These are visual pictures of what they would do if they could do as they pl...
Psychology (9 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (3 works)