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Transactional Analysis, Object Relations, and the Systems Approach: Finding the Counterparts

Pages 4-15
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article suggests that, to be more comprehensive, the systems approach needs to incorporate the depth of psychodynamics and the interpersonal edge of transactional analysis. Fortunately, all three theories rely on the idea of relationships. Therefore, it is possible to link the tripartite structure of object relations theory and the concept of payoff in transactional analysis to three major aspects of the systems approach: resourceful, constraining, and regulating relations.

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Oded Manor

Oded Manor, B.A., Ph.D., Dip. Counselling Skills, PG Dip. Applied Social Studies and Certificate of Qualification in Social Work, is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Social Work, Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, Britain.