Richard G. Erskine, PhD, has served since 1976 as the Training Director at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City.
He is a certified Transactional Analyst, a licensed Psychoanalyst , group psychotherapist and an internationally recognized Gestalt Therapist who trained with both Fritz and Laura Perls. He has twice received the prestigious Eric Berne Award for his contribution to the development of both a relational and integrative perspective in Transactional Analysis theory and methods. He has published over 50 articles in the Transactional Analysis Journal as well as five books on the theory and methods of a relationally focused integrative psychotherapy.
Richard introduced Transactional Analysis to South Africa in 1978 when he conducted a series of psychotherapy training workshops in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, and Port Elizabeth when no one else was willing to come to South Africa to do training.
From 1979 to 1990 Richard conducted a Transactional Analysis psychotherapy training program in Johannesburg where he trained, supervised, and sponsored many of the early South African Transactional Analysts for their clinical certification which enabled TA to get a foothold in South Africa which led to the establishment of the SATAA .