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Section 4: Clinical Transactional Analysis

Maybe It's Not “Kick Me” After All: Transactional Analysis and Schizoid Personality Disorder

Pages 84-90
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Analyzing transactions works to help individuals identify and change decisions they are conscious of making, particularly decisions that are no longer functional for them. But can transactional analysis help people change unconscious decisions about modes of operating that are so subtle, so ego-syntonic, so familiar, that changing them seems inconceivable and threatening? This article suggests that personality disorders can be understood as distorted frames of reference and that transactional analysis—the analysis of transactions that take place between client and therapist, between clients (in group therapy), and/or within a client (in individual therapy)—is a useful approach for identifying and changing these distortions.

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Carla Haimowitz

Carla Haimowitz is a psychologist and marriage and family therapist who practices and lives in Oakland, California. She is a board member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility of Northern California and has served on the board of the International Transactional Analysis Association.