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Three-Dimensional Transactional Analysis: The Drama Triangle and the Game Pentagon

Pages 30-35
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Separating individual and social psychiatry in game analysis can be a useful and important process. Berne's distinction between individual psychiatry and social psychiatry suggests two planes and three dimensions to the individual's psychological world. Game analysis in two planes is described here using the Drama Triangle (Karpman, 1968) and the Game Pentagon (Summerton, 1985). Awareness of a person's roles on the Pentagon and the Triangle offers a strategy for achieving autonomy.

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Oswald Summerton

Oswald Summerton, S.J., is an ITAA Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (Clinical), a Clinical Teaching Member and currently President of TASI (TA Society of India), and Co-Director of TACET (Transactional Analytic Centre for Education, Research and Training) in New Delhi, India. His address is 4 Raj Niwas Marg, Delhi-110054, India.