“This article presents the Comparative Script System – a chart which synthesises the major theories in TA: Classical School and the racket system; Redecision School and Cathexis School. It offers a tool which presents all of these within a systemic framework…”
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This article examines how the author uses Sandplay and Family Constellation approaches to enable clients to access non verbal and preconscious material easily and creatively. It offers a brief account of the development and principles of Sandplay and Family Constellation and how the author uses these in practice and how she understand the process in terms of TA theory.
It is suggested that the integration of these three approaches allows for the clients’ integration of different neural networks and ego states. Questions are raised as to which self (selves) are active in the sandplay and what role physis may play in this creative process.
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Citation: This is the unedited version of an article subsequently published in the Transactional Analysis Journal, Vol 43 No 3, July 2013
The author suggests that in the face of the current global crises that threaten the human species, transactional analysts need to assess their theoretical tools for understanding social development and their ability to contribute usefully to social change.
She offers that Transactional Analysis cannot claim to be a social psychology in the fullest sense and that Clare Graves’s theory of psychosocial development (popularized by Beck and Cowan in their 1996 book (Spiral Dynamics) may provide some of what is missing in Transactional Analysis theory. She suggests that there is a high level of compatibility between Spiral Dynamics and Transactional Analysis because both have a developmental perspective and share many concepts.
Illustrations based on the author’s work show how integrating these two theories enriches the possibilities of working with individuals and groups by allowing therapists and or developmental practitioners and their clients a deeper appreciation of their social context and cultural frame of reference.
Finally, the author asks the challenging question of how humans, as a species, will respond to the current threats they face: Will they progress or regress developmentally?
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an expanded version of this article is published in the TAJ at http://tax.sagepub.com/content/41/3/265.full.pdf+html
The article presents the Comparative Script System – a chart which synthesises the major theories in T A: Classical School and the racket system; Redecision School and Cathexis School. It offers a tool which presents all of these within a systemic framework. The Comparative Script System (CSS) provides an overview of how these theories overlap and complement each other. It also provides an opportunity for detailed focus on specific aspects of the self reinforcing system by which an individual maintains his or her script.
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