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Section1. Theory

About Energy Metaphors I: A Study of Their Selection, Defense, and Use in Berne's Theory

Pages 96-108
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This study of the metaphors of energy and cathexis in Berne's theory covers the period from 1950 through 1970 and is divided into three parts. Part one, which is the subject of this essay, is a survey of Berne's selection, defense, and use of these metaphors. The second essay will discuss how Schiff was guided by these metaphors and how she applied them in the treatment of schizophrenia. The third essay will discuss conceptual issues and problems arising from the use of quantitative metaphors in transactional analysis.

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Graham Barnes

Graham Barnes is a licensed psychotherapist, educator, and corporate consultant, and a certified group psychotherapist and marital and family therapist. He is also certified in second-order cybernetics. He founded the Fellowship for Racial and Economic Equality in 1969 and the Southeast Institute in 1973. He arrived in Sweden in 1983 and was naturalized in 1996. Barnes is chair of the board of Inform, Stockholm, visiting lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Zagreb, and the author of Justice, Love and Wisdom: Linking Psychotherapy to Second-Order Cybernetics (1994) and the editor and a contributor to Transactional Analysis After Eric Berne (1977). He is a clinical member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and was ITAA Vice President 1976–1977, a member of the ITAA Board of Trustees 1973–1977 and 1982–1984, and has been a Teaching Member since 1972. He is an honorary member of the Latin American Association for Transactional Analysis. He is also a member of the American Society for Cybernetics and the Swedish Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.