Michele Novellino

The Transactional Analyst in Action: Clinical Seminars Michele Novellino 1.º edición

Marc Notes: First published in Italian in 2010 as Seminari clinici. La cassetta degli attrezzi dell' analista transazionale, translated by Andrew Brociner --T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORPREFACE by William F. CornellINTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONEGeneral principles Didactic introduction Definition of transactional analysis Schools of transactional analysis New epistemological bases Social, psychological, and unconscious communication Other recent directions in literature CHAPTER TWOChange in transactional analysis The change The syndrome of the effective psychotherapy Positive feedback Negative feedback The patient who does not change Sloppiness CHAPTER THREEDefence and resistance General principles Defence and developmental point of view Counter-resistance. Analysis of countertransference The triadic approach to resistance Resistance in groups and anti-leadership CHAPTER FOURThe clinical methodology Therapeutic plan and methodology Therapeutic contract and analytic contract: operative differencesThe difference between strategy and tactics Strategic phases of the therapist CHAPTER FIVEThe setting Premise: the six steps of the first interview and the setting in transactional psychoanalysisDefinition of setting The set-up of the case and the reference The initial request The first interview and the formation of the therapeutic alliance. Alliance and pseudo-allianceAims of the first interview The motivation of the patient Gathering of information Giving informationContract and probe interventions CHAPTER SIXThe therapeutic contract Contract as content and as process Administrative contract Soft and hard therapy contracts Unacceptable contracts Therapy without contract Holloway s contract CHAPTER SEVENThe Bernean methodology The classic Bernean methodology: the therapeutic themesThe phases of therapy according to Berne Bernean tactics of intervention on the Adult Tactics of intervention with the Parent Tactics of intervention on the Child: regression analysis CHAPTER EIGHTPost-Bernean re-decision tactics Impasses and re-decisions Impasses and the developmental line. Neurosis of transferenceThe seven components of re-decisional therapy Re-decision therapy: the two-chairs work Separation and condensation in the work of the two chairsA clinical case Rechilding The three chairs technique Interventions on the Parent Tactics of intervention on dreams CHAPTER NINEThe psychodynamic approach Deconfusion in Berne Deconfusion and re-decision Re-decision analysis of transference Deconfusion in a relational perspective GLOSSARYREFERENCESINDEX"Publisher Marketing: This book was born out of the demands, which are more and more informed, for a manual that gathers in a didactic and systematic way that which is considered the tool-box of a modern transactional analyst. In fact, from the publication in 1966 of the work by Eric Berne, "Principles of Group Treatment," one cannot find a work which condenses the operative principles of the transactional method, for how it has developed in the most widespread methodological tendencies, while there exist books on technique about single orientations. The topics are presented in a way to offer both students and psychotherapists an assimilable version of what the current panorama of transactional techniques offers, in particular those of a psychodynamic orientation, but giving ample space to the redecisional techniques. Less noted techniques are illustrated, like the intervention on the Parents and others that are more recent. The focus of the manual is on the technical aspects of the analytic transactional intervention, in this way integrating the previous works on the epistemology and the methodology ("The clinical approach to transactional analysis" of 1998), and on the psychoanalytic roots of the Bernean work ("Transactional Pychoanalysis" of 2004). This book represents a synthesis of more than thirty years dedicated to the spreading and teaching of transactional analysis, and will be useful to students, directors and professors of the schools of transactional analysis, and also to therapists of other schools, providing an up-to-date and complete idea of the current state of the analytic transactional methodology."

Contributor Bio:  Novellino, Michele Michele Novellino, psychiatrist, psychologist, and teaching and supervising transactional analyst of the International Transactional Analysis Association, is one of the founders of transactional analysis in Italy. He was granted the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 2003 for his studies on unconscious communication, and is the author of twenty books on psychotherapy and more than 150 papers.