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The Role of Personal Evolution in the Therapist

Pages 72-74
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article summarizes some of the personal experiences and key events that occurred in the author's journey in finding transactional analysis, training with Eric Berne, and becoming a TA therapist. It underscores how offhand remarks can become pivotal events that shape life. The connections between personal and professional work are emphasized, as is the way both become essential contributions to the theory and practice of major social change agents such as transactional analysts.

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Pamela Levin

Pam Levin graduated from the University of Illinois in 1964. She trained with Eric Berne, founder of transactional analysis, and has been active in the TA movement since 1966. She was the first nurse to be awarded Clinical Membership and then Teaching Membership in the International Transactional Analysis Association. She was the cofounder in 1972 of Group House, a personal growth center in Berkeley, California, and of Orrs Hot Springs Healing Retreat Community in Ukiah, California, in 1975. In 1984 she wrote the Experiencing Enough training and now conducts her own Inner Child Sanctuary trainings internationally.
Pam is the author of Becoming the Way We Are (1974), The Fuzzy Frequency (1979), Cycles of Power (1981), and How to Develop Your Personal Powers (1982). She has written numerous articles in professional and trade journals, coauthored “Games Nurses Play” with Eric Berne in 1971, and was editor of the International Transactional Analysis Association newsletter, The Script, from 1983–1986. For her work on the developmental cycle, the theory of childhood stages repeated throughout adulthood, she received the 1984 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award.