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Section 1. Transactional Analysis

A New Type of Transactional Analysis and One Version of Script Work with a Constructionist Sensibility

Pages 89-98
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Since Berne's seminal work, a number of clinicians have elaborated different types of therapy within transactional analysis. Most of us are now familiar with reparenting (Schiffet al., 1975), self-reparenting (James, 1977), egogram therapy (Dusay, 1972), integrative therapy (Erskine, 1991), and redecision therapy (Goulding & Goulding, 1976). All of these therapeutic approaches are based on a modernist belief in a consensual reality. It now seems time to consider another type of therapy, constructionist transactional analysis, and to elaborate how a postmodern constructionist sensitivity can expand current transactional analysis ideas, especially script work.

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Barbara Ann Allen

James R. Allen, M.D., F.R.C.P.(P.), M.P.H., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, professor of child/adolescent psychiatry, director of the Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program, and director of the Children's Psychiatric Center, Children's Hospital at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Barbara Ann Allen, A.C.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, mental health planner, and human ecologist in private practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 

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