Transactional Analysis
Journal
October 2007 Abstract
Volume 37, Number 4
Coeditors: Jan Morrison and Mary
Goodman
Letter from the Coeditors
Jan
Morrison and Mary Goodman
pp. 246-247 |
Finding Megan: Vitality in the Space Between
Us
Steff Oates
pp. 248-255
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| This article offers a case study as a means of opening
a dialogue about clients whose natural process of identity formation was
impeded at the protocol level. The author invites consideration and an
expansion of the work of Hargaden and Sills (2002) with regard to deconfusion
of the Child ego state and the development of the self to include the
importance of bodily experience in relationship and in the therapeutic
alliance. |
Curzio: The Story of a Child and His Body
Dolores Munari Poda
pp. 263-277 |
| This article describes portions of a therapeutic
process with a young boy named Curzio. The therapy involved working with
stories, drawings, games, and especially body language. The body, with its
rhythms and movements, became a visible means of discovery, opening up and
freeing Curzio from restricting injunctions. |
Focusing on the "Bodily Felt Sense": A Tool for
Transactional Analysts
Mary Goodman
pp. 278-285 |
| This article describes the experiential method of
psychotherapy known as "focusing" (Gendlin, 1981, 1996) and discusses its
relevance to transactional analysis. Using information available from the lived
body, in the form of what is known as the "bodily felt sense," focusing can,
for example, provide more ready access to the Free Child, facilitate impasse
clarification and decontamination of the Adult, and evoke a positive internal
Parent. By undercutting theoretical complexity, focusing allows the
therapist/consultant to set aside preconceived notions (i.e., to "think like a
Martian") and to let the change process emerge from within the client. This
article explores the nature of psychological change, especially how to
recognize it and what facilitates it. |
Transactional Analysis and the Mind/Body Connection
R. Uma Priya
pp. 278-285 |
| This article explores the healing process in three
ways. First, it differentiates stress reactions from physical diseases and
describes how the mind and body should collaborate to effect change and healing
processes in the body. Second, it discusses how mind/body mechanisms are
involved in healing and presents a case study in which relaxation and imagery
techniques were used to increase awareness of the body and the release of
tension and feelings stored in the body. "Positive imagery" (mental
representations of reality) (Fezler, 1990) was used to help the client
visualize being on the road to recovery. Third, the metaphor of a "wheel" is
used to define the concept and theory of permission, which is then used to
harness the mind in order to facilitate the healing process. |
Being in Relationship: Different Languages to
Understand Ego States, Script, and the Body
Susanna Ligabue
pp.
294-306 |
| Since being in relationship motivates and drives human
development, the author proposes different theoretical languages as a way to
promote exchange and professional development. She considers the significance
of relationship in shaping human development as demonstrated by recent
scientific debate and connects various theoretical frames of reference and
transactional analysis. The concepts of relational behaviors, internal working
models (Bowlby), and ego states (Berne) are analyzed and compared. The
relationship between body and script is discussed with reference to various
contemporary views and with attention to the early phases of development and
interactions with caregivers. The author emphasizes the significance of early
interpersonal relationship patterns in organizing and regulating individual
body/mind units by connecting and updating some basic transactional analysis
concepts. Considering the significance of body experience in the growth process
underscores, as fundamental, the intersubjective relational quality of human
experience. |
Stroking: What's Love Got to Do with
It?
Claude Steiner
pp. 307-310 |
| The author attempts to answer the question "What does
transactional analysis have in common with body-centered, somatic points of
view?" Transactional analysis began as an Adult-centered, rational theory, but
with the introduction of the concept of strokes, Berne opened the way, perhaps
unwittingly, for a somatic-Child- and body-centered-investigation of love and
the emotions. |
Book Review Section
pp. 311-313 |
Letter to the Editor
p. 314 |
Index for Volume 37, 2207
pp. 315-316 |
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