A Stark Choice Between Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Therapeutic Relationship. (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Berlin, Alistair
• Is Part Of: Transactional analysis journal. Volume 49:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 180
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Relational -- intersubjective -- enactment -- modes of therapeutic action -- ego states -- psychotherapy -- cocreative -- therapist subjectivity -- mutual regulation -- transactional analysis; Transactional analysis -- Periodicals; Psychology, Social -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy, Group -- Periodicals; Analyse transactionnelle -- Périodiques; 616.89145
• DOI: 10.1080/03621537.2019.1602414
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-1537

Abstract

Abstract: The author questions the validity of the theoretical stance, originally put forward by Martha Stark, that therapists can effectively move between modes of therapeutic action by utilizing different schools of transactional analysis at different points in the therapeutic relationship. Four areas are suggested in which there is disharmony between this stance and the tenets of relational therapy. To illustrate these tensions, a new set of ego state diagrams is offered to represent the intersubjective nature of the therapeutic dyad in relational transactional analysis.