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Section I. Theory and Practice: Clinical

Upside-Down Rackets

Pages 215-220
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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A racket feeling is a substitute either for a real feeling or for another racket feeling such as a game payoff. The upside-down racket is a path between the real feeling and the old racket feeling. In the upside-down racket a person can be drawn from appropriate feelings into the racket feeling, then to the substitute racket feeling, and finally to destructive trading stamp payoffs. Discovered in relation to ex-addicts and ex-alcoholics in TA therapy, recognition of the upside-down racket and use of the upside-down racket grid helps to prevent relapse.

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Oswald Summerton

Oswald Summerton is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical) and a Jesuit priest who has been doing TA therapy and training in New Delhi, India, for the past 25 years. He is also one of the founders of the TA Society of India and has served on the ITAA's Training Standards Committee and the TAJ editorial board. He is the codirector of TACET Academy of Social Transformation, 40 Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062, India.