Abstract
This article presents a cocreative transactional analysis of empathy as the principal method of cocreative transactional analysis (TA). As such, it represents a further development of the author's work with Graeme Summers on cocreative transactional analysis (Summers & Tudor, 2000, 2005) and on the neopsyche or integrating Adult (Tudor, 2003). The article locates cocreative transactional analysis as a relational TA and considers its similarities and differences with the integrative approach to transactional analysis of Erskine and others (Erskine, 1988, 1991; Erskine & Moursund, 1988; Erskine & Trautmann, 1996; Moursund & Erskine, 2004) and the relational TA of Hargaden and Sills (2002).