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Concepts, Competencies, and Interpretive Communities

Pages 126-147
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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In the process of considering core concepts and core competencies in transactional analysis, there are several factors that need to be taken into account: (1) biological underpinnings, (2) epistemology (constructivism, expectancy, and membership in an interpretive community), (3) the appropriate boundaries of social psychiatry, (4) practitioners' styles, and (5) the roles of eclecticism and integration.

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James R. Allen

James R. Allen, M.D., FRCP(C), M.P.H., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Rainbolt Family Chair of Child Psychiatry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, U.S.A., and president-elect of the International Transactional Analysis Association.