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Section 3. Theory

About Energy Metaphors II: A Study of Schiff's Applications

Pages 186-197
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This is the second essay in a three-part study of Berne's use of metaphors of energy and cathexis in the theory of transactional analysis during the period from the 1950s through the 1970s. This article considers how Schiff was guided by these metaphors and how she applied them in the treatment of schizophrenia. Schiff's work is placed in the context of the systematic development of the logic of Berne's personality theory and the application of injunctions embedded in his theory.

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Graham Barnes

Graham Barnes is a licensed psychotherapist, educator, and corporate consultant and a certified group psychotherapist and marital and family therapist. He is also certified in second-order cybernetics. He founded the Fellowship for Racial and Economic Equality in 1969 and the Southeast Institute in 1973. He arrived in Sweden in 1983 and was naturalized in 1996. Mr. Barnes is chair of the board of Inform, Stockholm, visiting lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Zagreb, and the author of Justice, Love and Wisdom: Linking Psychotherapy to Second-Order Cybernetics (1994) and the editor and a contributor to Transactional Analysis After Eric Berne (1977). He is a clinical member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and was ITAA vice president 1976–1977, a member of the ITAA Board of Trustees 1973–1977 and 1982–1984, and has been a Teaching Member since 1972. He is an honorary member (since 1976) of the Latin American Association for Transactional Analysis. He is also a member of the American Society for Cybernetics and the Swedish Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.