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Section 1. Clinical Applications

Transactional Analysis Notes from Oklahoma City: After the Bombing

Pages 202-209
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article looks at the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City and its aftermath from the vantage point of transactional analysis, a process that gains added importance if this bombing is, indeed, the first major manifestation of a new kind of terrorism in the United States. The article also delineates previously unnoted functions of the bystander in the drama triangle: crisis creation and definition, scenario construction, and the elaboration of myth.

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Barbara A. Allen

James R. Allen, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C), M.P.H., is currently Chief of Mental Health Services and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical) of the ITAA. Barbara Ann Allen, ACSW, Ph.D., has a therapy and consulting practice as a therapist, mental-health planner, and human ecologist in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.