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The Indomitable Spirit of Berne and Cohen: “If You Can't Do It One Way, Try Another”

Pages 300-304
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article offers an appreciation of two men from Montreal, Eric Berne and Leonard Cohen, whose insistence on remaining antiestablishment and offbeat continues to inspire this author and many like her. A comment regularly heard in the worldwide transactional analysis community is that transactional analysts are living out Eric Berne's script of remaining on the fringe, not taken quite as seriously as we might wish. This article invites readers to broaden this perception and challenges the pathological underpinnings suggested by that idea.

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Steff Oates

Steff Oates is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and runs a psychotherapy and supervision practice in Cheshire, North West England. She is cofounder of the Northern College of Body Psychotherapy. She can be contacted at Swallow-field, Slade Lane, Mobberley, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 7QN, United Kingdom; e-mail: .