Drawing on field theory and social constructivism, the authors present a dynamic, cocreative approach to transactional analysis. This approach emphasizes the present-centered nature of the therapeutic relationship—or therapeutic relating—and the cocreative nature of transactions, scripts, ego states, and games. The authors frame this approach within a positive health perspective on transactional analysis (as distinct from an undue emphasis on psychopathology) and argue that cocreative transactional analysis provides a narrative or story about transactional analysis itself that offers new and contemporary meanings to old transactional truths. The article concludes with a series of questions for self-supervision that may serve as a useful guide to cocreative transactional analysis practice.

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Section 1. Theory
Cocreative Transactional Analysis
Pages 23-40
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
Section 1. Theory
Cocreative Transactional Analysis
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