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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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Keith Tudor

Graeme Summers, B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip.Psychotherapy, CTA, PTSTA, is a registered transactional analysis psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). He is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer working at Manchester Gestalt Centre, Dacrelands Clinic, Lancaster, and the Edinburgh Institute for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He can be reached at Manchester Gestalt Centre, 7 Norman Road, Manchester M14 5LF, England; and by email at .
Keith Tudor, M.A., M.Sc., CQSW, Dip. Psychotherapy, PTSTA, MAHPP, is registered with the UKCP both as a transactional analysis psychotherapist as well as a group psychotherapist and facilitator. He is in private/independent practice as a therapist, supervisor, and trainer in Sheffield, where he is also a Director of Temenos. He is the author of a number of articles and two books in the field of therapy and mental health.
 

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