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Meeting the Challenges of a Vengeful World with a Socially Responsible Transactional Analysis

Pages 126-138
Published online: 15 Feb 2018
 
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Using a transactional analytic (TA) perspective, the author addresses the complex, intersecting issues of social responsibility, vengeance, and justice. Social responsibility is primarily defined in terms of active engagement with others in the solution of the numerous social problems that plague society. Using a simplified structural analysis of revenge, the difference between revenge and justice is highlighted with a focus on some ways to take vengeance out of conflictual transactions. The relevant socially responsible role TA intervention can play is explored in three selected areas that are congruent with its principles: restorative justice, truth-telling, and forgivability. The author uses his experience in the criminal justice system as a case example. Noting TA’s currently limited sphere of influence on world leaders, transactional analysts are nevertheless encouraged to collaborate with others in accomplishing the mission of Transactional Analysts for Social Responsibility (TAFSR).

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Leonard P. Campos

Leonard P. Campos, PhD, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), has been an ITAA member for 50 years. He is a lifetime member of the American Psychological Association and the California Psychological Association. He was trained in redecision therapy by his mentors, Robert Goulding, MD, and Mary Goulding, LCSW, and received his Teaching Membership in 1971. He is currently retired and available as a TA consultant. He can be reached at his home office at 1606 Oakview Avenue, Roseville, California 95661, USA; email at ; website: www.TA-doctor.com.

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The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
 

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