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Article

A Critique of Novellino's “Six Steps for the First Interview”

Pages 303-304
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This critique points out that the six steps that Novellino (2011) presents in his article are not unique to a psychoanalytic transactional analysis. Most clinical transactional analysts have similar intentions in the initial interview, even though they might use different language to describe what they are doing. Furthermore, the author suggests that the dichotomy Novellino presents between cognitive-behavioral transactional analysis and psychodynamic transactional analysis is a false one in the clinical field, especially with regard to redecision therapy.

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Vann S. Joines

Vann S. Joines, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), and president of the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A. He can be reached at 659 Edwards Ridge Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27517, U.S.A.; e-mail: .