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Using Transactional Analysis in Work With Immigrant Families

Pages 23-37
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The authors describe their experiences over the last 15 years working with immigrant families at Terrenuove, a social cooperative in Milan, Italy. They consider theory and interventions from transactional analysis as well as innovations developed at Terrenuove based on transactional analysis. The story of an African immigrant family that was assisted at the Psychological and Ethnopsychiatric Counselling Service for Immigrants is used to illustrate the work at Terrenuove. Building on Eric Berne’s emphasis on social psychiatry, a method of interprofessional care tied to the local area has been developed as a way to prevent social marginalization and to increase social responsibility.

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Roberto Bestazza is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) who works with young adults and has long experience intervening with socially disadvantaged clients. He is a teacher and supervisor at Centro di Psicologia e Analisi Transazionale postgraduate psychotherapy school in Milan, Italy. At Terrenuove, of which Roberto is a charter member, he works in the Psychological and Ethnopsychiatric Counselling Service for Immigrants and teaches at the Counselling and Transactional Analysis School. He has published articles in Quaderni di Psicologia, Analisi Transazionale e Scienze Umane and in Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie. Roberto can be reached at Via di Vittorio N ° 10, Casalpusterlengo 26841 (LO), Italy; email: ; Web site: www.terrenuoveonlus.it. An earlier version of this article was published as “Le famiglie immigrate: Percorsi di cura” in Quaderni di Psicologia, Analisi Transazionale e Scienze Umane, No. 58, 2012, pp. 73-119.
Dela Ranci is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and Certified Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She is a founding member and the president (since 1989) of Centro di Psicologia e Analisi Transazionale, where she was the director of the Counselling and Transactional Analysis School until 2009. In 1998 she and other colleagues founded Terrenuove, where she is responsibile for the Psychological and Ethnopsychiatric Counselling Service for Immigrants. Dela has published articles in Quaderni di Psicologia, Analisi Transazionale e Science Umane, Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie, and Animazione Sociale about her work with socially disadvantaged subjects, groups, supervision, and networking in private and public health institutions. She is also the author of several book chapters on transcultural and ethnopsychiatric issues, including “Questioni di etnopsichiatria clinica” (2004), “Etnopsichiatria di territorio” (2009), and “Migrazioni e migranti: Esperienze di cura a Terrenuove” (2011). Dela can be reached at Centro di Psicologia e Analisi Transazionale, Via Archimede 127 (20129), Milan, Italy; email: ; Web site: www.terrenuoveonlus.it.
 

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