Engaged Research

Encountering a Transactional Analysis Training Group through Bion's Concept of Containing

Bibliographic Data

ID20178555
AuthorsN Michel Landaiche (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume35
Issue2
Pages147-156
Publication date2005-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/036215370503500205
OpenAlexW2579260384
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

The author describes his experience of observing a transactional analysis training group focused on work with highly challenging clients. This encounter precipitated his inquiry into the nature and effect of researching. Drawing on Bion's psychoanalytic concept of “containing”–with its aspects of receiving, thinking, and interpreting–the author hypothesizes how an engaged approach to research into human functioning might actually be therapeutic or growth-enhancing for the individual or group being studied. Such engagement requires the researcher's ability to structure experiences both bodily and mentally on the path to understanding and affecting human capacities

Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Transactional analysis · Transactional leadership · Coaching Methods and Impact · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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