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This paper offers a response to the presentations of Farhad Dalal (2016) and Andrew Samuels (2016) at the 2015 International Transactional Analysis Conference in Sydney and published in this issue of the Transactional Analysis Journal. After introducing Dalal and Samuels as other in the transactional analysis community, the paper reflects on the core of their contributions: the “we” makes the “I” and/or the “I” makes the “we,” both of which represent a political position. Two notions are taken from their presentations: The first is about the political position of transactional analysis, which seems to be overadapting to market demands; the second is about the validity of transactional analysis concepts. These notions are linked with each other through reflections on the neoliberal context in which transactional analysis seeks to survive and the fundamental transformation or metanoia (Jung, 1970, p. 719) that is needed within transactional analysis to research the validity of transactional analysis concepts.

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Servaas van Beekum

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Servaas van Beekum, drs., is a social scientist with a background in analytic, humanistic, and systemic modalities. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a psychotherapist (PACFA reg.), a supervisor and executive coach (EASC/AAoS reg.), and a consultant to organizations. He is the past president of the European Association of Transactional Analysis and the International Transactional Analysis Association and works globally as a guest trainer, author, speaker, and consultant. Servaas is a cofounder of Group Relations Nederland (1992) and Group Relations Australia (2005), associations that study unconscious group process in organizations. Servaas is the 2015 recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award. He lives in Sydney, where he has a private practice as a psychotherapist, executive coach, and supervisor and where he is the director of the consulting training arm of the Australian Centre of Integrative Studies (ACIS). He also works as a consultant for Aspirall. Servaas can be reached at 158 Wellington Street, Bondi/Sydney 2026, New South Wales, Australia; email: .