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Theoretical Diversity: A Debate about Transactional Analysis and Psychoanalysis

Pages 110-118
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article presents a lively debate in the form of four letters exchanged by Michele Novellino, a proponent of transactional psychoanalysis, which utilizes the analysis of transference, countertransference, and unconscious phenomena, and Claude Steiner, who takes the position that transactional analysis was developed as a radical departure from psychoanalysis and does not benefit from the use of psychoanalytic terminology.

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Michele Novellino

Claude Steiner, Ph.D., ITAA Teaching Member, is a clinical psychologist and one of the founding members of the ITAA. With his wife, Jude, he divides his life between urban Berkeley and rural Ukiah, California, and is fortunate to live within driving distance of his three children and four grandchildren. His is developing a stroke-centered theory and practice of transactional analysis and is working on his next book, Confessions of a Psycho-Mechanic. He can be reached at 2901 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, 94704, U.S.A.; email: ; Web site: www.claudesteiner.com.
Michele Novellino, M.D., Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, Director of the Institute Eric Berne, lives and works in Rome and is the author of 15 books on transactional analysis, the most recent being Psicoanalisi Transazionale [Transactional Psychoanalysis] (2004) and La Sindrome di Don Giovanni [The Don Juan Syndrome] (2005). He can be reached at Via Angelo Emo, 87 00136 Rome, Italy; email: .