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Lost in Translation: Neo-Bernean or Neo-Freudian?

Pages 284-302
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article offers a historical perspective and novel insights into the theoretical and organizational issues currently at play between the neo-Bernean and neo-Freudian schools in transactional analysis with the hope of fostering the ongoing preservation of theory and treatment diversity in transactional analysis.

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Stephen Karpman

Stephen B. Karpman, M.D., is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), was twice vice president of the ITAA, and served on the board of trustees for 11 years. He was a close colleague of Dr. Berne, attending his Tuesday night seminars weekly for 6 years. He was one of the grandfather founding members of the ITAA and the first ongoing editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal. He has 30 transactional analysis publications and twice won the Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award, once for the drama triangle in 1972 and again in 1979 for transactional options. He has taught widely across the United States and in over a dozen countries. He is an assistant clinical professor at UCSF, which is in San Francisco where he also has his private practice. His articles are available on his free Web site at www.KarpmanDramaTriangle.com. He invites all comments to this article by e-mail at and by mail at 4333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, U.S.A.
 

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