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Title Life scripts : a transactional analysis of unconscious relational patterns / edited by Richard G. Erskine
Published London : Karnac, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 314 pages) : illustrations
Contents COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD, Richard G. Erskine; CHAPTER ONE: Life scripts: unconscious relational patterns and psychotherapeutic involvement, Richard G. Erskine; CHAPTER TWO: The lived and narrated script: an ongoing narrative construction, Maria Teresa Tosi; CHAPTER THREE: When parting is not such sweet sorrow: "Mourning and melancholia", projective identification, and script analysis, Helena Hargaden; CHAPTER FOUR: Script or scripture? Jo Stuthridge; CHAPTER FIVE: Whose body is it? Somatic relations in script and script protocol, William F. Cornell
Summary "Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns is an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods. Each chapter describes an evolution of Eric Berne's original theory and brings together a stimulating range of international perspectives, theoretical positions, clinical experiences and psychotherapy practices, as well as a psychotherapy story that illustrates the theory. The concept of Life Scripts has frequently been associated with the determinism represented in theoretical scripts, yet, this book offers some new and diverse perspectives. A few contributors address the significance of early childhood experiences in forming a Life Script, while others reflect the perspectives of post-modernism, constructivism, existential philosophy, neuroscience, developmental research, mythology and the importance of narrative. An illustrious group of authors has integrated a broad professional perspective into their understanding of a theory of mind, theories of personality and the methods of psychotherapy. Each chapter provides a unique theoretical perspective; some are provocative and challenge Berne's and others long held notions about Life Scripts. Every chapter includes a clinical case of an actual client that illustrates how the theory of Life Scripts is used in psychotherapy"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Berne, Eric.
SUBJECT Berne, Eric [MESH]
Berne, Eric fast
Subject Transactional analysis.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychotherapy -- Methodology.
Psychoanalysis [MESH]
Psychoanalytic Theory [MESH]
Psychotherapy -- methods [mesh]
Transactional Analysis
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Theory
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy -- Methodology
Transactional analysis
Form Electronic book
Author Erskine, Richard G.
ISBN 9781849407434
1849407436
9780429901454
0429901453
1282779885
9781282779884
9786612779886
6612779888