Relational Transactional Analysis

Fowlie, Heather

• For whom the bell tolls -- Introduction -- Principles of Relational Transactional Analysis -- Principle 1: The centrality of relationship -- The use of self in psychotherapy -- A response to Diana Shmukler’s keynote speech—the use of self in psychotherapy -- Principle 2: The importance of engagement -- Therapeutic involvement -- Countertransference self-disclosure -- Principle 3: The significance of conscious and nonconscious patterns of relating -- Dynamic ego states—the significance of nonconscious and unconscious patterns, as well as conscious patterns -- Aspects of selfhood -- Principle 4: The importance of experience -- The importance of experience -- Person to person: a meditation on a two-person practice -- Principle 5: The significance of subjectivity and self subjectivity -- Subjectivity and intersubjectivity -- Rackets and racket feelings: breaking through the racket system, a case of transformation of experience in short-term therapy -- Principle 6: The importance of uncertainty -- What do I do now? Grappling with uncertainty in a postmodern world -- The importance of uncertainty -- Principle 7: The importance of curiosity, criticism, and creativity -- Fighting for a mind of one’s own -- Where do we dwell? -- Principle 8: Working with adults -- The reality of the functioning and changing adult -- The development of Adult capacities through relationship -- Relational Transactional Analysis in Context -- Working with difference relationally -- Cross-cultural transactional analysis -- Lost and found in translation: therapy and the bilingual self -- Transactional analysis and the wider world: the politics and psychology of alienation -- Relational practices and interventions: neuroscience underpinnings -- The erotic relational matrix revisited -- Relational transactional analysis and group work -- Is relational transactional analysis psychotherapy terminable? -- The Implications for Professional Practice -- Relational transactional analysis and ethics—minding the gap -- Reflections on a theme of relational supervision -- Exploring the relational meaning of formula G in supervision and self-supervision -- Relational supervision -- Research and relational psychotherapy -- Reflective inquiries -- The censorship process: from distillation to essence—a relational methodology -- Fostering the freedom for play, imagination, and uncertainty in professional learning environments