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II. Strokes and Transactions

Congruent and Incongruent Transactions

Pages 312-315
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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All transactions have a social (conscious) level and a psychological (unconscious or out of conscious awareness) level. We have known that ulterior transactions have these levels, but it had been thought that complementary and crossed transactions can be shown to be congruent. That is, the two levels of stimuli agree. In ulterior transactions, the two levels are incongruent or disagree. An example of the clinical use of this principle is the hypnotherapist's use of multi-level transactions, such as the Bull's eye, that reach each ego state simultaneously.

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Chuck Stern

Chuck Stern, MSW, CPTM is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Fielding Institute and is currently senior therapist at the Eastwood Clinic in Detroit, Michigan.