Transactional Analysis
Journal
July 2002 Abstract
Vol 32 No 3
Acceptance Speech on Receiving the 2002 Eric Berne
Memorial Award
by Leonhard Schlegel
The Other Side of the Story
by Harry
Tyrangiel
This article considers "the other side of the story" from a
historical and social-psychological perspective. Specifically, it describes how
our inability to digest the Holocaust continues to influence present-day
history in Europe and the Middle East. The author discusses how stories, lies,
and propaganda can shape our understanding of reality and demonstrates how
telling our stories and listening to those of others can enhance understanding
and communication. Elements of a dialogic psychotherapy are presented with
wider implications for life as dialogue.
Effects of Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy in
Therapeutic Community Treatment of Drug Addicts
by Thomas
Ohlsson
Transactional analysis group psychotherapy combined with
residential milieu therapy has been used for 25 years as a treatment method for
abusers of heavy druges. To evaluate the results, 10 therapeutic communities
(TCs) were studied in 1990-98. All transactional anlysis therapy for 67 clients
at 7 TCs was documented during 20 months by the clients and 43 therapists. The
clients had 1 to 168 therapy sessions (mean 64). There was follow-up after two
years. Outcomes were assessed. At three other TCs, 38 clients and 43 staff
rated perceived importance of treatment factors in taped interviews. The
results show that transactional analysis therapy was a central treatment
factor, that clients with over 80 group therapy sessions improved more
(p<.001), that those with complete therapy processes improved more
(p<.001), and that more qualified therapists had better results (p<.02).
The findings indicate that one year or more of transactional analysis therapy
in a therapeutic community environment is effective in rehabilitating drug
addicts.
In Support of the Second-Order Functional Model
by Jorge Oller-Vallejo
Based on studies of
attachment-separation-individuation needs, this article justifies the
functional subforms considered in the usual functional model of ego states,
that is, in the usual second-order functional model derived from the primary
ego states model or first-order functional model. This article also justifies
the functional subdivision of the Adult according to these studies.
Using Transactional Analysis in Sports Coaching
by Stuart K. Slater
This article describes how general counseling
principles and specific transactional analysis concepts - including ego states,
games, rackets, and drivers - can enhance sports coaching. The author draws
particularly on the work of Walker (1986) and illustrates applications of
transactional analysis in sports coaching by discussing their use with a boys'
field hockey team.
Primary and Secondary Gains from Games
by Ken
Woods
The primary gain from a game is the defensive function it
provides. Analyzing a game only in terms of its secondary "gains from illness"
may induce a profound state of despair in the patient. This article addresses
the futility of analyzing games in terms of secondary gains alone.
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