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 constellation of P1–, A1–, and C1–, and the positive constellation of P1+, A1+, and C1+. These constellations are experienced by the criminal clients as being mutually exclusive, and their complementarity is unrecognized. Emphasis in therapy is upon synthesizing the two constellations to provide a more appropriate P1, A1, and C1. Samenow and Yokelson's (The Criminal Personality) discussion of the extensive thinking and mental rehearsal which often precedes commitment of a crime are emphasized, and an approach utilizing the recording and analysis of the thinking of criminal clients is presented

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• Treatment of the I + U? and I − U? Life Positions

  Tony White•Transactional Analysis Journal•1997

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• OKness as it Pertains to the Manic Defense

  Ken Woods•Transactional Analysis Journal•2002

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• Ego Splitting and the TA Diagram

  Mary Woods, Ken Woods•Transactional Analysis Journal•1981

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• The Duplex Transaction and Pastiming

  Ken Woods•Transactional Analysis Journal•2002

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