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What Do You Say If You Don't Say “Unconscious”?: Dilemmas Created for Transactional Analysts by Berne's Shift Away from the Language of Unconscious Experience

Pages 93-100
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author contacted members of the original San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars asking for their recollections of and opinions about Eric Berne's shift from the language of the unconscious. Their comments are excerpted here. The author examines the consequences for transactional analysis theory of Berne's change in language, arguing for a reconceptualization of unconscious experience within transactional analysis.

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William F. Cornell

William F. Cornell, M.A., Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), is a psychotherapist, supervisor, consultant, and trainer. He is editor of the ITAA newsletter, The Script, and a coeditor of the Transactional Analysis Journal. His work reflects his training in transactional analysis, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and body-centered psychotherapy. He may be contacted at 145 44th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, USA, or by e-mail at .
 

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