Skills in Transactional Analysis Counselling and Psychotherapy

by Christine Lister-Ford

• ISBN13: 9780761956976
• ISBN10: 0761956972
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-24
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

'An important book that deserves reading by both trainees and experienced therapists of all approaches and models' - Counsellingbooks.comSkills in Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy is a practical introduction to a uniquely comprehensive therapeutic approach, which combines theories of the mind, emotions, behaviour and bodily experience.Following the typical pattern of working with a client, the book describes the key features of Transactional Analysis (TA) and its basic building blocks - ego states, transactions, games and scripts. Each concept or technique is introduced at the stage in the counselling process at which it is required. Backed up by exercises, this enables readers to build their knowledge and skills base in tandem with their understanding of the counselling process itself.Part One focuses on the development of the therapeutic alliance between therapist and client and gives guidance on how to create structures in which the work can begin. Part Two explains how to build the client's awareness with the aim of strengthening their capacity to think more clearly and solve problems. Part Three looks at deepening the work with the client by helping them to discover the history behind the problems and make contact with their inner child. Part Four explores how to enable the client to move toward personal autonomy through integrating and synthesizing the work undertaken with the counsellor.This book vividly demonstrates the art of TA practice, considering fully the experience of both the counsellor and the client. For all those training in TA, this will be essential reading.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Preface	ix
Outline of the Five Stages of TA Counselling	1	(1)
What is Transactional Analysis?	1	(16)
Part One The Counselling Relationship
Beginning the Relationship	17	(31)
Building the Relationship and Analysing the Client's Internal World	48	(19)
Developing the Relationship and Completing Analysis of the Client's Internal World	67	(20)
Part Two Developing Awareness
Challenging the Frame of Reference	87	(22)
Freeing the Adult	109	(26)
Part Three Recapturing Spontaneity and Intimacy
Discovering Internal Confusion	135	(22)
Sustaining Intimacy	157	(22)
Part Four Autonomy
Making the Transition to Autonomy	179	(18)
Ending and Separating	197	(21)
References	218	(3)
Index	221