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Publications in this Library
Schizoid Processes: Working with the Defenses of the Withdrawn Child Ego State
This article examines the defenses of the withdrawn Child ego state as described by both transactional analysis and British object relations theory. The process of withdrawal is considered, and the principles of therapy from a relational perspective are explored.
Script Cure: Behavioral, Intrapsychic, and Physiological
Transactional analysis, as a social psychiatry, has emphasized the behavioral change aspects of script cure. Within this framework cure is defined as the cessation of script syntonic behavior. Yet, for many people change in behavior alone is not sufficient to effect pervasive change of their life scripts. To achieve a total script cure change must occur at the intrapsychic level of the script as well, that is, change at the cognitive and affective levels of existence.
Transference and Transactions: Critique from an Intrapsychic and Integrative Perspective
One purpose of this article is to draw a distinction between Berne's two theories of ego states and to describe how each theoretical perspective creates a significantly different concept of transactions and transference. The practice of transactional analysis in psychotherapy is markedly different with each of these two theories.