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Section 3. Brief Communications

An Update on the Use of Contracting

Pages 121-123
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Contracting is one of the basic principles of transactional analysis. Since Berne introduced the concept it has been greatly expanded and used in different contexts within the practice of transactional analysis psychotherapy. This articles proposes to differentiate between treatment contracts, behavioral contracts, and process contracts and to adjust the style in which contracts are made to their different uses.

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Gudrun Stummer

Gudrun Stummer has a master's degree in biology from the University of Vienna and advanced clinical training in transactional analysis psychotherapy from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy. She is a Regular Member of the ITAA and a psychotherapist in private practice at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy.
 

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