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Therapeutic Applications

Withdrawal: A Basic Positive and Negative Adaptation in Addition to Compliance and Rebellion

Pages 114-119
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This paper suggests that withdrawal is a basic positive and negative form of adaptation by the Adapted Child to parental influences, along with compliance and rebellion. Compliance, rebellion, and withdrawal are related to the three basic negative survival emotions: fear, anger, and sadness, respectively. Other factors in support of the aptness of this distinction are discussed along with its theoretical and practical usefulness within the transactional model.

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Jorge Oiler Vallejo

Jorge Oller Vallejo is a psychotherapist and a Certified Clinical Provisional Teaching Member in the ITAA and the European TA Association. He is also Director of SEPSEM TRANSACCIONAL Institute for the Application and Development of Transactional Analysis and founder and President of the Catalan Association for Transactional Analysis. He lives and works in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.