Transactional Analysis
Journal
October 2002 Abstract
"Case Studies
II"
Vol 32 No 4
On Being Competent Even If We Don't Know
Everything
by Lise Small
This article describes long-term
psychotherapy with a patient who had been abused as a child. Various moments
and elements of the therapy are discussed along with some of the thinking
behind the work. Although most therapy requires the therapist to do some degree
of questioning and experimenting, this is even more the case with patients who
use heavy denial and dissociation. It is essential in working with such
individuals that the clinician be willing to explore and find ways of dealing
with the patient's deep distress and profound lack of trust. The therapist must
also be able to accept his or her own feelings of helplessness and doubt while
remaining grounded and present in the therapeutic relationship.
Little Pipa and Other Ghosts: Short-Term Psychotherapy
with a Child
by Dolores Munari Poda
This article describes
short-term psychotherapy with a young girl. The development of the
therapy-supported by a strong therapeutic alliance-is shown through the
evolution of a gentle ghost story, created and illustrated by the young patient
herself. As the story progresses, the patient's self-confidence is strengthened
and the development of new vital permissions is fostered.
In the Cemetery of Lost Loves
by Ingrid
Lewis
If we assume that, like most people, a psychotherapist chooses
his or her profession for conscious or unconscious reasons related to his or
her own script, what good or bad comes of this motivation? What becomes of a
psychotherapist's script in all its richness during therapeutic work with
clients? Do psychotherapists work with or against their scripts?
From Withdrawal to Relational Contact:The Psychotherapy
of Self-Destructiveness
by Gregor Zvelc
The author describes
the diagnosis, treatment planning, and phases of psychotherapy with a
self-destructive patient using a theory of the schizoid process as a guiding
principle.
Bonding in Relationship: A Solution to Violence?
by Richard G. Erskine
This case study of the psychotherapy of a
client with violent fantasies describes the effects of bonding and attachment
in forming a therapeutic relationship. Interwoven throughout the case study is
a discussion of the therapeutic methods of phenomenological inquiry, affective
and developmental attunement, responsiveness to relational needs, and an
analysis of the psychological functions of fantasizing.
Whose Story
Is It?
by Jonathon Wagner
One way to look at communication in
therapy is to see it as narrative, a story created by client and therapist.
This idea fits well with transactional analysis. A therapist's awareness of the
story's powerful force increases the power of therapy. This article describes
procedures that will help a therapist stay true to a client's story and develop
awarenesses that can help a client obtain effective help.
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