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The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy

Pages 5-16
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article explores rupture and failure within transactional analysis psychotherapy from ethical, cultural, theoretical, and clinical perspectives. The author offers a relational frame of reference, which views failure and rupture as inevitable and necessary in the therapeutic encounter. A relational therapeutic sequence is described, and a relational aspect is added to Berne's (1972) game formula and illustrated with a case example.

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Carole Shadbolt

Carole Shadbolt, M.Sc., CQSW, Dip. Social Science, Certified Transactional Analyst and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), lives and practices in the United Kingdom. In a career approaching 30 years, she originally trained as a social worker and worked both as a generic social worker and later as a psychiatric social worker at The Maudsley Hospital in South London. She went on to train as a transactional analyst and qualified a UKCP-registered practitioner. A relational psychotherapist by instinct, Carole is a founder member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis. She can be reached at Hawthorne, Horseshoe Lane, Chadlington OX7 3NB, United Kingdom; e-mail: .
 

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