Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy A Systematic Individual and Social Psychiatry

THIS book outlines a unified system of individual and social psychiatry as it has been taught during the past five years at the Group Therapy Seminar of Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, at the Monterey Peninsula Clinical Conference in Psychiatry, at the San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars, and more recently at Atascadero State Hospital, and the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. This approach is now being used by therapists and group workers in various institutional settings, as well as in private practice, to deal with almost every type of mental, emotional, and characterological disturbance. The growing interest in and wider dissemination of its principles have indicated a need for this book, since it has become increasingly difficult to fulfill all the requests for lectures, reprints, and correspondence. The writer has had the privilege of visiting mental hospitals in about thirty different countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Atlantic and Pacific, and has taken the opportunity of testing the principles of structural analysis in various racial and cultural settings. Their precision and predictive value have stood up rather well under particularly rigorous conditions requiring the services of interpreters to reach people of very exotic mentalities. Since structural analysis is a more general theory than orthodox psychoanalysis, the reader will be fairer to himself and to the writer if he resists, initially at least, the understandable temptation to try to fit the former into the latter. It the process is reversed, as it should be, it will be found that psychoanalysis easily finds its place methodologically as a highly specialized aspect of structural analysis. For example transactional analysis, the social aspect of structural analysis, reveals several different types of “crossed transactions.” The multifarious phenomena of transference are almost all subsumed under just one of these types, here denoted “Crossed Transaction Type I.” Other examples of the relationship between psychoanalysis and structural analysis are given in the text. Introduction Chapter 1. General Considerations Part I. Psychiatry of the Individual and Structural Analysis Chapter 2. The Structure of Personality Chapter 3. Personality Function Chapter 4. Psychopathology Chapter 5. Pathogenesis Chapter 6. Symptomatology Chapter 7. Diagnosis Part II. Social Psychiatry and Transactional Analysis Chapter 8. Social Intercourse Chapter 9. Analysis of Transactions Chapter 10. Analysis of Games Chapter 11. Analysis of Scripts Chapter 12. Analysis of Relationships Part III. Psychotherapy Chapter 13. Therapy of Functional Psychoses Chapter 14. Therapy of Neuroses Chapter 15. Group Therapy Part IV. Frontiers of Transactional Analysis Chapter 16. Finer Structure of the Personality Chapter 17. Advanced Structural Analysis Chapter 18. Therapy of Marriages Chapter 19. Regression Analysis Chapter 20. Theoretical and Technical Considerations