Relational Transactional Analysis

Heather Fowlie, MA, MSc (psychotherapy), teaching and supervising transactional analyst, Dip. in supervision, is UKCP registered. She is head of the Transactional Analysis department at the Metanoia Institute in London. She works in private practice in South West London as a full-time psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer, and is particularly interested in integrating other models of psychotherapy, especially object relations within a relational approach to transactional analysis. She is a founder member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis (IARTA). Charlotte Sills, MA, MSc, teaching and supervising transactional analyst, is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, a senior tutor at Metanoia Institute, and visiting professor at Middlesex University. She has published widely in the field of counselling and psychotherapy including, with Helena Hargaden, 'Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective', and 'An Introduction to Transactional Analysis' with Phil Lapworth.

• 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