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Engaged Research: Encountering a Transactional Analysis Training Group through Bion's Concept of Containing

Pages 147-156
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author describes his experience of observing a transactional analysis training group focused on work with highly challenging clients. This encounter precipitated his inquiry into the nature and effect of researching. Drawing on Bion's psychoanalytic concept of “containing”–with its aspects of receiving, thinking, and interpreting–the author hypothesizes how an engaged approach to research into human functioning might actually be therapeutic or growth-enhancing for the individual or group being studied. Such engagement requires the researcher's ability to structure experiences both bodily and mentally on the path to understanding and affecting human capacities.

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N. Michel Landaiche

N. Michel Landaiche, III, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist currently working as a human relations consultant with government, nonprofit, and corporate organizations. He can be contacted at 515 South Aiken Avenue, #509, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, U.S.A., or by email at