The transactional analyst in action : clinical seminars / Michele Novellino.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed December 18, 2012).

This book represents a synthesis of more than thirty years dedicated to the spreading and teaching of transactional analysis, and will be useful to students, directors and professors of the schools of transactional analysis, and also to therapists of other schools, providing an up-to-date and complete idea of the current state of the analytic transactional methodology. The handbook describes the epistemological and methodological roots for a well-grounded psychotherapy with transactional analysis (TA): differences among method, methodology, therapeutic plan, and strategy and technique are all illustrated. TA is presented as a phenomenological branch of modern relational psychoanalysis. Transference and counter-transference are reconsidered in a Bernean perspective. The four strategic phases of alliance, decontamination, deconfusion, and relearning are presented, together with the well-known techniques of the eight Bernean therapeutic operations, two and three-chairs work, redecision technique, and dream-work. The major transactional analysis schools of psychodynamic TA, integrative psychotherapy, and redecison school are summarized and compared. The author's theory of unconscious communication and of 'six steps' for the first interview are introduced. Many clinical cases help the reader to assimilate the different concepts. The topics are presented in a way to offer both students and psychotherapists an integrated version of what the current panorama of transactional techniques offers, in particular those of a psychodynamic orientation, but giving ample space to the redecisional techniques.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. One General principles -- Didactic introduction -- Definition of transactional analysis -- Schools of transactional analysis -- New epistemological bases -- Social, psychological, and unconscious communication -- Other recent directions in literature -- ch. Two Change in transactional analysis -- change -- syndrome of the effective psychotherapy -- Positive feedback -- Negative feedback -- patient who does not change -- "Sloppiness" -- ch. Three Defence and resistance -- General principles -- Defence and developmental point of view -- Counter-resistance. Analysis of countertransference -- triadic approach to resistance -- Resistance in groups and anti-leadership -- ch. Four clinical methodology -- Therapeutic plan and methodology -- Therapeutic contract and analytic contract: operative differences -- difference between strategy and tactics -- Strategic phases of the therapist -- ch. Five setting -- Premise: the six steps of the first interview and the setting in transactional psychoanalysis -- Definition of setting -- set-up of the case and the reference -- initial request -- first interview and the formation of the therapeutic alliance. Alliance and pseudo-alliance -- Aims of the first interview -- motivation of the patient -- Gathering of information -- Giving information -- Contract and probe interventions -- ch. Six therapeutic contract -- Contract as content and as process -- Administrative contract -- Soft and hard therapy contracts -- Unacceptable contracts -- Therapy without contract -- Holloway's contract -- ch. Seven Bernean methodology -- classic Bernean methodology: the therapeutic themes -- phases of therapy according to Berne -- Bernean tactics of intervention on the Adult -- Tactics of intervention with the Parent -- Tactics of intervention on the Child: regression analysis -- ch. Eight Post-Bernean re-decision tactics -- Impasses and re-decisions -- Impasses and the developmental line. Neurosis of transference -- seven components of re-decisional therapy -- Re-decision therapy: the two-chairs work -- Separation and condensation in the work of the two chairs -- clinical case -- Rechilding -- three chairs technique -- Interventions on the Parent -- Tactics of intervention on dreams -- ch. Nine psychodynamic approach -- Deconfusion in Berne -- Deconfusion and re-decision -- Re-decision analysis of transference -- Deconfusion in a relational perspective.

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