Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Transactional Analysis

Anna Emanuela Tangolo is a psychotherapist and Director of the PerFormat Psychotherapy Specializing School (Pisa and Catania, Italy). She is accredited by the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) as a Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) and as a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA). In 2012 she founded PerFormat Salute, a professional network for the promotion of psycho-physical health involving over eighty professionals - counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists - in more than twenty polyfunctional centres all around Italy.

'This book is a major contribution to contemporary transactional analysis and one that advances Eric Berne's original relational perspective. Anna Emanuela Tangolo achieves her task of integrating psychodynamic psychotherapy with transactional analysis by weaving a number of strands together - including a strong personal narrative, a grounding in aesthetics and aesthetic ways of knowing, good and poignant clinical examples, and the significance of spirituality - to create a tapestry that is not only rich in images (womb, acting, incubator, sailing, etc.), but also offers rich pickings for the reader and clinician.Drawing on her knowledge of philosophy (Arendt, Gibran, Heidegger, Jaspers), psychology, and psychotherapy, Tangolo offers a clear, elegant, and often poetic narrative that outlines a sophisticated, yet practical, transactional analysis for the contemporary clinician. Other gems include an emphasis on listening, a great explication of Berne's therapeutic operations, and the reclaiming of transactional analysis as a group therapy. This book is beautifully written and translated and worth buying for the introduction alone. I highly recommend it.'- Keith Tudor, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology'Most of us have, for many years, been waiting for Anna Emanuela Tangolo to write about her long and intense activity as a psychotherapist, counsellor, and trainer. Her book suggests a personalised approach to the world of the transactional analytical literature. This book represents a very effective and enjoyable tool, which intends not to replace but to integrate with a more technical literature.'- Michele Novellino, from the Preface

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PREFACE Michele Novellino INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Being a counsellor and a psychotherapist CHAPTER TWO Psychotherapy with TA CHAPTER THREE The setting CHAPTER FOUR The clinical interview CHAPTER FIVE Contractual treatment CHAPTER SIX Basic techniques: therapeutic operations CHAPTER SEVEN Transference, alliance, and the therapeutic relationship CHAPTER EIGHT The phases of the therapeutic process CHAPTER NINE Script therapy CHAPTER TEN Group therapy CHAPTER ELEVEN Using dreams in psychotherapy CHAPTER TWELVE Healing and the end of therapy CHAPTER THIRTEEN Transactional Analysis: towards an ecology of social relationships REFERENCES INDEX