Transactional Analysis Proper-and Improper: Selected and New Papers offers a critical reading of transactional analysis (TA), which analyses, deconstructs, and reconstructs its foundational theory.

Keith Tudor is professor of psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand where he is also a co-Lead of Moana Nui-Centre for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He has been involved with transactional analysis (TA) for over 40 years and is a Certified and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the field of psychotherapy. He is a well-published author and editor in the field, with over 100 publications about TA, including most recently an edited book: Claude Steiner, Emotional Activist (Routledge, 2020). He has a small private practice as a therapist, trainer, and supervisor, based in West Auckland.

Introduction

PART I: Basic assumptions

Introduction

1. 'We are': the fundamental life position (2016)

2. There's methodology in the contractual method: philosophy in practice

3. Permission, protection, and potency-the 3 Ps, reconsidered (2016)

PART II: New wine from old roots

Introduction

4. 'I'm OK, you're OK-and they're OK': therapeutic relationships in transactional analysis (1999)

5. From transactional analysis to transactional relating: the gift of the present, and the reality of context

6. The state of the ego: then and now (2010)

7. We've had 66 years of ego states and the world's getting worse

8. Shame, shaming, and 'shame': a transactional analysis (1995)

9. Growth: old scripts, new narratives

10. Regulation and registration: protection or protectionism? A plea for pluralism (2010b)

11. Gaming and playing: re-reading Games People Play

PART III: Looking back, looking forward

Introduction

12 . Honouring our tradition(s), developing personal praxis

13. Live long and prosper: a Vulcan view of transactional analysis

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