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Section 1. Theory

Old Roots Revisited: Reassessing the Architecture of Transactional Analysis

Pages 41-51
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article assumes that the concepts of ego states and script are the central ideas in transactional analytic theory and that reconsidering them will facilitate a new view of transactional analysis. It describes the psychoanalytic foundation on which transactional analysis is based and demonstrates that various transactional analysis concepts either amplify or explain one of these two central concepts. The author's goal is to show transactional analysis as a theoretical construction rather than as simply a group of pragmatic methods.

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Ulrike Müller

Ulrike Müller studied German and English language and literature and has been a Grammar school teacher for 15 years. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and clinical and pedagogical training and supervision in Freiburg (Black Forest), Germany.