Transactional Analysis
Journal Abstract
April 2003 Abstract
"Core Concepts"
Volume 33, Number 2
Coeditors: Claude
Steiner and Tony Tilney
(sold out)
Care and Maintenance of the Tree of Transactional
Analysis
Leonard P. Campos
In this article, the analogy of a
tree planted by Eric Berne is used to provide a perspective on what constitutes
the “core” of transactional analysis. In describing the roots, trunk,
and branches of this “tree,” the author calls for care and
maintenance so that it can grow with greater synergy and less entropy. Some of
the challenges that may affect the healthy growth of this “tree of
transactional analysis”—such as the integrative psychotherapy
movement, constructivism, objection to the use of energy metaphors, the
“psychoanalytization” of transactional analysis, and lack of
scientific validation—are identified and discussed. The author urges
transactional analysts to sustain the healthy growth of transactional analysis
for the new millennium by following the legacy of Berne’s original
creative and scientific spirit, without which there would be no transactional
analysis today.
Concepts, Competencies, and Interpretive Communities
James R. Allen
In the process of considering core concepts
and core competencies in transactional analysis, there are several factors that
need to be taken into account: (1) biological underpinnings, (2) epistemology
(constructivism, expectancy, and membership in an interpretive community), (3)
the appropriate boundaries of social psychiatry, (4) practitioners’
styles, and (5) the roles of eclecticism and integration.
Core Concepts of Transactional Analysis: An Opportunity
Born of Struggle
Damon Wadsworth and Alexis DiVincenti
This
article presents the history of and some commentary about the theoretical and
political polemic surrounding the attempt to determine a set of transactional
analysis core concepts. The authors propose that ego state theory inconsistency
is at the heart of the theoretical debate and the political struggle. They
elaborate this inconsistency in the ego state theory found in the A
Compilation of Core Concepts document (Steiner et al., 1999) and assert
that the project to establish a set of transactional analysis core concepts
should be transformed into an opportunity to clear up such inconsistencies in
the fundamental concept of transactional analysis.
Three Basic Ego States: The Primary Model
Jorge
Oller-Vallejo
After describing the controversy about the two models
recently known as the three ego states model and the integrated/integrating
Adult model, the author argues for the incompatibility of these two views and
for the exclusive validity of the three ego states model as the single primary
model of ego states in transactional analysis.
Core Concepts of an Integrative Transactional
Analysis
Marye O’Reilly-Knapp and Richard G. Erskine
In
integrative transactional analysis, the conceptual constructs, theories, and
subtheories are organized into a theory of motivation, a theory of personality,
and a theory of methods. The theory of motivation examines human functioning
and the need for stimuli, structure, and relationship. The theory of
personality describes internal and external contact, interruptions to contact,
life script, and ego function. The theory of methods emphasizes the power of a
healing relationship. These theories and methods assist clinicians in
understanding human beings, in normalizing the functions of psychological
processes, and in healing through relationship.
Core Concepts of a Stroke-Centered Transactional
Analysis
Claude M. Steiner
The author presents a set of core
concepts that offers his answer to the question, “What is transactional
analysis?”
A Compilation of Core Concepts
Claude Steiner,
with Leonard Campos, Pearl Drego, Vann Joines,Susanna Ligabue, Gloria Noriega,
Denton Roberts, and Emilio Said
This set of transactional analysis core
concepts was developed in 1999 by the members of the task force on
transactional analysis core concepts, which later became an ITAA development
committee task force. The group was chaired by Claude Steiner and included
Leonard Campos (USA), Pearl Drego (India), Vann Joines (USA), Susanna Ligabue
(Italy), Gloria Noriega (Mexico), Denton Roberts (USA), and Emilio Said
(Mexico).
Whither Transactional Analysis: Obsolescence or Paradigm
Shift?
Bruce R. Loria
This article explores the knowledge
base of transactional analysis, focusing on a number of epistemological errors
that potentially limit the theory’s power. Possible remedies are
discussed.
A Response to Loria
Claude M.
Steiner
The author gives his response to Bruce R. Loria’s (2003)
article titled “Whither Transactional Analysis: Obsolescence or Paradigm
Shift?”
A Rejoinder to Steiner’s Response
Bruce
R. Loria
The author addresses some issues raised in Claude M.
Steiner’s response to his article “Whither Transactional Analysis:
Obsolescence or Paradigm Shift?”
(sold out)
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