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Rosa Krausz, PhD, is being recog-nized for her work as represented bytwo of her articles: “Power and Leader-ship in Organizations” (TransactionalAnalysis Journal, April 1986) and “Orga-

nizationalScripts” (Trans-actional AnalysisJournal, April1993). ErichKosloski, whonominatedRosa, noted thatthe first of thesewas a pioneer-

ing article for organizational applica-tions of transactional analysis becauseit considered the relationship betweenpower and leadership styles withinorganizations as well as betweenmembers of organizations and leader-ship styles and the degree of effective-ness of each style and its possible out-comes. Rosa described four leadershipstyles in terms of transactional analysisconcepts, including the use of predomi-

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e are pleased to announce that 2012 is a very good year for the Eric Berne

Memorial Award. We have two winners: Rosa Krausz and Marco Mazzetti.

They will be receiving their awards at the August conference in Chennai,

India, and we offer a brief summary here describing the work for which they are being

honored. We hope you will join us in congratulating them both: Rosa can be reached at

rokra@terra.com.br and Marco can be reached at marcomazzetti.at@libero.it .

Marco Mazzetti, MD, is being hon-ored for his practice-anchored theory oftransactional analysis supervision asrepresented by his article “Supervisionin Transactional Analysis: An Opera-tional Model”(TransactionalAnalysis Journal,April 2007). Hisnominatorsincluded JimAllen, IsabelleCrespelle, MillyDe Micheli,Fanita English,Ann Heathcote, Dolores Munari Poda,Alessandra Pierini, Nancy Porter-Steele,Charlotte Sills, and Curtis Steele. Intheir nomination statement, theydescribed how Marco’s operationalmodel represents an original, innova-tive, and significant advancement in thetheory and practice of transactionalanalysis supervision. It aimed to devel-op a specific theory of transactionalanalysis supervision and its consequent

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practice and is significant because it systematizes andintegrates previous models of supervision, especially thework of Erskine, Clarkson, and Tudor, and enhances andextends them with new and innovative concepts.

Specifically, Marco’s model integrates Erskine’s conceptof supervisees’ stages of development and specific learn-ing needs with Clarkson’s approach to evaluating thequality of supervision and Tudor’s goal of supportingclear and coherent transactional analysis theorizing.Marco’s nominators noted that his work systematizestransactional analysis supervision into a comprehensive,consistent model and adds and develops new conceptsthat enrich and enhance the model both theoreticallyand methodologically. Marco’s seven-point operationalmodel changes the emphasis of transactional analysissupervision from focusing mainly on the client’s well-being to the well-being of both client and practitioner/supervisee. In doing so he moves supervision from a one-person to a two-person relational frame. New conceptsaddressing a transactional analysis theory of supervisioninclude the ideas of emotional contact with the super-visee and the use of parallel process. Transactionalanalysis literature and central concepts are widely refer-enced, with relevant attention to Berne, Holloway, Stein-er, James, Goulding, and Allen and Allen, and the classicconcepts of the discount matrix, the episcript, and theconcept of OKness.

The significance and impact of these ideas has becomemanifest in the translation of the article into other lan-guages and how it is quoted by Provisional Teaching andSupervising Transactional Analyst candidates in theirTSTA examinations. For these future supervisors, Marco’sideas clearly have become a significant frame of reference.

Marco Mazzetti, MD, born in 1958, is specialized in pedi-atrics and psychiatry. He is a Teaching and SupervisingTransactional Analyst (psychotherapy), a member of EATAand the ITAA (since 1988), a university lecturer at the Facul-ty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy, and the author ofseveral books and scientific articles on transactional analysisand cross-cultural psychiatry. He worked in several healthcooperation projects in Africa, Asia, and South America, andfrom those experiences he derived a deep interest in the cul-tural implications of human relationships and specifically ofpsychotherapy. In his country of Italy he started to work withimmigrants in Rome, at the Caritas Health Service, in 1990,where he is at present the head of “Invisible Wounds,” the

nant ego states, transaction types, frequent strokepatterns, predominant life position, time structure,games, discounts, and their impact on productivityand organizational climate. The article shows it ispossible to diagnose organizational climate anddevelop interventions to facilitate behavioral changefor the members of the organization as well as toidentify and stimulate options for membership parti-cipation through empowerment that profits theorganization as a whole. The article has been wellused and often cited in later publications, especially inthe organizational field of TA.

The second article discusses, for the first time, theapplication of script theory in organizations as well asthe relevance of taking into account nonconsciousindividual and group processes that can negativelyimpact organizational efficacy. The article proposes aset of beliefs as a tool for analyzing the external adap-tation process and the internal integration of organi-zations using a classic definition of scripts presentedby Berne. It is supported by works on organizationalculture and organizational ideology in order to showthe behavioral patterns that are the archetypes ofeach organizational script. Four ideologies werestressed: work, time, people, and money. Rosashowed how these concepts, which had previouslybeen used only in the clinical field, could be applied innonclinical fields. This article has become a classic inthe organizational field of transactional analysis,

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rehabilitation service for torture victims. Marco also works asa psychotherapist and psychiatrist in private practice inMilan, Italy, where he founded and runs the Milan Institutefor Transactional Analysis. His main pleasure is raising histhree children with his wife, Ulrika, and traveling, skiing,mountain climbing, and biking with them. He is also a passionate cook.

amplifying the application of TA and enhancing thereach and potency of interventions so that they are nolonger only individual and healing but also becomestrategic, preventive, predictable, and able to impactorganizations as a whole.

Rosa Krausz is a Brazilian sociologist and former universi-ty professor as well as a Teaching and Supervising Trans-actional Analyst (organizational and educational) certi-fied by the ITAA and UNAT-BRAZIL (the Brazilian TAAssociation). She is a full member of the Worldwide Asso-ciation of Business Coaches (WABC), a former ITAA Sec-retary and member of the board of trustees, the author ofseveral articles published in the Transactional AnalysisJournal, editor of REBAT (the Brazilian Journal of TA),translator of What Do You Say After You Say Hello?and other transactional analysis books, and an activetrainer and supervisor of the majority of organizationalCertified Transactional Analysts in Brazil. Rosa alsoauthored two books on transactional analysis in organi-zations and has participated in national and internation-al conferences. Several of her articles have been translat-ed into French, German, and Italian. She enjoys garden-ing, cooking, reading, and spending time with her family,which includes her two children and four grandchildren.

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2012 Eric Berne Memorial Award. When he learned the

good news several days later, he and his family celebrated

together: (from left) wife Ulrika Widén, daughters Sofia

(standing) and Alice (seated), Marco, and son Niccolò.

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Upcoming TAJ Theme Issues

“Counseling and transactional Analysis”editors: Sylvie Monin and William Cornell

Deadline for Manuscripts: 1 July 2012

“transactional Analysis and Groups”editor: Jo Stuthridge

Deadline for Manuscripts: 1 January 2013

“transactional Analysis, Childhood, and Adolescence”

editors: Marco Mazzetti, Güdrun Jecht-Hennig,Dolores Munari Poda, and Ann Heathcote

Deadline for Manuscripts: 1 July 2013

“Loss, Death, and Dying”editor: Ann Heathcote and Steff Oates

Deadline for Manuscripts: 1 January 2014

Please follow the submission requirements posted at http://itaaworld.org/index.php/transactional-analysis-

journal/taj-submission-requirements . Email manuscripts toTAJ Managing Editor Robin Fryer, MSW, at robinfryer@aol.com.

Call for Volunteers

We need your help to breathe new life into the following ITAA committees:

the conference committee has the inspiring task of organizing the2012 Chennai Conference together with our colleagues from the SouthAsian Association of Transactional Analysts (SAATA). The conferencesfor 2013 and 2014 are also coming up, and initial preparations willbegin once sites have been selected.

the membership coordinating committee has an important task,especially now that the ITAA office has closed. Help our members tofeel connected.

the scholarship grant fund committee has not been active in the lastfew years. We need to reinvigorate it because our members need thiskind of help.

Your fresh ideas and energy are urgently needed. For all offers and ques-tions, please contact ITAA Vice President of Operations Vladimir Gous-sakovski at v.gusakovski@gmail.com .

tA Conferences Worldwide

he 4th Seminar of Interna-tional Transactional Ana-

lysts for Childhood andAdolescence (ITACA), withthe theme of “Meeting theChild Through Play,” tookplace in Lavarone, Italy,from 26-28 August 2011. Agroup of transactional ana-lysts—including educa-tors, teachers, neuropsy-chiatrists, pediatricians,psychiatrists, psychologists, psy-chomotor therapists, and psy-chotherapists—chose this place inthe Italian Alps, where SigmundFreud spent some summers, tomeet with others who share aninterest in working with childrenand adolescents.

Dolores Munari Poda, winner of the2009 Eric Berne Memorial Award,opened the seminar by introducing

met Friedensreich Hundertwasser,with his personal desire to find hisown autonomy by crossing culturesand religions in order to renovateboth architecture and living spaceswith new languages and symbols.

The contributions of the other pre-senters at the conference touchedon many different subjects, fromprevention in schools to interven-tions in hospitals, from counselingto clinical work in the consultingroom either individually or in groups.There were considerations of theoryand technique as well as experien-tial stories. The main theme wascontact with children and adoles-cents through play.

three artists who have in common atechnical ability and creativity that isinspired by childhood and becomesthe inspiration for masterpieces thatstand the test of time. We saw themobiles and stabiles of AlexanderCalder, who combined his engineer-ing skills with the creative ability ofproducing “toys” that are works ofart using simple materials. The sec-ond artist was Bruno Munari, whoseeyes are those of an adult who hasnot forgotten the Child inside himand who makes us look at thingswith new eyes, reinvent everydayobjects, and play with books andstories to rediscover the small butprecious gifts of nature. Third, we

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ing and Supervising Transactional Ana-lyst (psychotherapy) and a psychothera-pist who works with children and ado-lescents. He is also the scientific coordi-nator of the master’s for children andadolescents psychotherapy at IntitutoTorinese di AT (Turin Institute of TA), in Turin, Italy. He can be reached at stefanmorena@tin.it .

Panel at the 2011 ITACA Conference (from left): Rossella Pedone, CTA-C; Ariela

Casartelli, PTSTA-C; Maurizio Martucci, TSTA-P; Stefano Morena, PTSTA-P;

Dolores Munari Poda, TSTA-P; Cristina Capoferri, PTSTA-P (and President of

ITACA); and Rosangela Pesenti, CTA-E.

tional analysiscontributions andon the therapeuticfunction of play.Its development,from a sensorimo-tor stage to a moreelaborate one withsocial rules wastranslated into anevolutionary per-spective followingPam Levin’s devel-opment cycle. Aconnection wasnoted betweenplay and script inits diagnostic andtherapeutic use.

AnnacarlaArlunno present-ed the characteris-

tics of maternal-like interventionswith adolescents hospitalized in aneuropsychiatric department. SaraFilanti spoke about her work in atransactional analysis psychothera-py group for children in which thetherapist and her young patientsmeet, build a contract, feel emo-tions, search for solutions, and testdifferent ways of living together.

“The Dimension of Play and Amuse-ment in Working with Adoles-cents”by Barbara Giacobbe, “TheMetaphor of Play” by Cetta Berardo,and “The Emotional Musical” byUlrika Widén all considered the ver-satility and competence needed inthe delicate contact with the adoles-cent world. The approach of thesepractitioners involves music, play,metaphors, and technology used in apoetic and creative way.

Tiziana Bullano described chil-dren’s play in the context of a pri-mary school. Barbara Fabbronipresented her views on a phenome-nological approach to the analysis of

Ariela Casartelliand RossellaPedone presentedtheir work on “care,”which takes place ina laboratory of psy-chomotoricity in anursery and is usedas a space dedicatedto play and parent-child counseling.This project was cre-ated to offer differentoptions within asocial context inwhich children arehardly “seen” andwhere there seemsto be a lack of timeand desire to be withthem, except tostimulate their learn-ing and efficiency.The speakers also made connec-tions between some game typesand the concepts of script, protocol,and intimacy as articulated by EricBerne and Bill Cornell.

Sometimes the child arrives in theconsulting room with a burden ofundifferentiated anguish and de-structive fantasies. Cristina Capo-ferri showed how playing can turnthis emotional jumble into con-structive fantasies and related herclinical work to the contributions ofWinnicott, Bion, Ferro, Cornell, andRomanini.

Rosangela Pesenti, in her presen-tation on “The Places Inhabited byChildren,” reminded us that someplaces can speak to us and tell ourstories; they can accept or reject usthrough the language of spaces andobjects. Home, in particular, is theplace where babies are kept safe.Taking into account the contribu-tions of the social theorist PierreBourdieu, the anthropologist Michelde Certeau, and the artist Niki de

Saint Phalle, Rosangela proposed acounseling intervention for a littlegirl using the game of house in anoriginal way.

Stefano Morena illustrated how itis possible to meet the child’s “mon-sters” during the therapy process.Through clinical histories he articu-lated how it is possible to approachthese monsters and to know anddomesticate them using self-repar-enting techniques and/or throughcoping strategies and a pleasant,seriously playful narration.

In “Children’s Play and Transaction-al Analysis,” Güdrun Jecht-Henning traced the foundations ofplay: assumptions, meanings, gra-tuity, and functionality. She talkedabout the work of Pauline Kernberg,who has been a point of referencefor considerations of play linked todifferent psychopathological situa-tions and for analyzing whether aplay activity is age appropriate andhealthy. The presentation thenfocused on some specific transac-

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Lavarone, site of the ITACA conference in the Italian Alps, where

Sigmund Freud spent some summers

the path that from the therapist’sChild arrives first to the child’s Childand then to the parent’s Child. Sil-via Grassi pointed out the typicalcharacteristics of those who use theLittle Professor in teaching andlearning transactional analysis. Thisis possible in a dynamic setting inwhich the “force of presence” in therelationship is central. Her closingwords summed up one of the inspir-ing principles of ITACA: “We don’town knowledge, we create ittogether.” This is the driving forcethat moved us in the beginning andthat is still moving us: the impor-tance of our attention to children,adolescents, and the adults who liveand work with them, a love ofresearch, and the desire to shareour work and ideas.

The 2012 5th ITACA Seminar, also inLavarone and entitled “New Experi-ences with Children and Adolescentsin Therapy, Counseling, and Educa-tion,” will focus on “Working Experi-ences with Children and Adoles-cents” (24 August) and on “FanitaEnglish and Children: Her Theoreti-cal Contribution” (25 August).ITACA will propose a review of Fani-ta’s rich and composite work fromthe beginning to now, in order tooffer her views to professionals whowork with children and as a resourcefor therapy, psychopedagogy andcounseling with children.

Everyone who works with children,adolescents, and families, in educa-tional, health, scholastic, and thera-peutic fields, is welcome at the 2012meeting. The seminar will be in Italian with English translation. For more information, visitwww.versoitaca.org .

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Call for Papers: “ TransactionalAnalysis, Childhood, & Adolescence”

by Güdrun Jecht-Hennig, Marco Mazzetti, Dolores MunariPoda, and Ann Heathcote

Although many transactional ana-lysts work with adults and children,there is a paucity of publications onwork with children and adolescentsin the transactional analytic litera-ture. In recognition of this deficiency,the editors of the TransactionalAnalysis Journal have decided todevote an entire issue to articles con-cerned with counseling, treatment,and the pedagogics of children andadolescents. We are honored toserve as guest editors for this issue.

Work with children is a central partof our professional life. Using trans-actional analysis in this task helps usto develop a picture of the child’souter and inner situations. The theo-retical background of script gives usthe opportunity to (1) analyze scriptand (2) influence script develop-ment. The language of children isnot only verbal; they also communi-

cate by facial expressions and ges-tures and in their play, body expres-sions, and art work (e.g., see Poda,2004). Adolescence is a special, fas-cinating time in the life of young-sters, an exciting and sometimestroubled migration from childhood toadult life. It is a natural and impor-tant part of any TAJ issue devoted tochildren. This dynamic age appearsto be a chance for changing anddeveloping life perspectives and hori-zons. We hope authors for this spe-

cial journal will consider what ourrole is as parents, educators, coun-selors, therapists, and experts in thelives and psyches of children andteenagers.

The cultural differences in dealingwith children, adolescents, and theirparents are amazing, and we alsohope for a fruitful exchange on theseissues from our international com-

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Güdrun Jecht-Hennig and Marco Mazzetti

Ann Heathcote

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munity. How are youngsters facingand dealing with globalization andthe new media and new technologiesthat are making our children so simi-lar all around the world? How arethey dealing with phenomena likemigration? We hope to highlightsome of the differences as well as themutuality of experiences working astransactional analysts with childrenand their environments.

Join us in creating an important col-lection of articles on using transac-tional analysis with children. We areeager to see what you will con-tribute! The deadline for submittingarticles is 1 July 2013, although wewould appreciate it if potential con-tributors would send us a provisionaltitle for their intended contributionat their earliest convenience. Andremember to consult the TAJ sub-mission requirements at http://itaa-world.org /index.php/transactional-analysis-journal/taj-submission-requirements . We look forward tohearing from you.

ReFeRenCe

Poda, Dolores Munari. (2004). Everychild is a group: The girl of the snakes.Transactional Analysis Journal, 34, 52-68.

2012 international transactional analysis Conference

ChEnnai, india 9 to 11 august 2012 hotEl grt grand

Organizers: ITAA and SAATAHost: Poornam – Institute for Holistic Development

Second early-bird registration deadline: 8 May 2012www.itaaconference.com

The 2012 ITAA Conference in Chennai, India, from 9-12 August, is shap-ing up with a large variety of workshops by presenters from around theworld (for a partial listing, see the March 2012 Script). We hope if youhaven’t already, you will register now and make your travel plans!

Early-Bird rEgistration and talEnt ratEs: The deadline for the10% early-bird registration is 8 May. Residents of TAlent countries have the option toregister for only 50% of the full rates. We hope this will encourage participation frommany countries. We are also offering special rates for local participants because thespread of transactional analysis among those who have not yet been exposed to it is oneof the objectives of the conference.

advErtising: To support these efforts, please consider placing an advertisement inthe conference souvenir/program, which will be distributed to all conference partici-pants. Ad rates: back outside cover: 15,000 (INR); front/back inside cover: 10,000 (INR);full page: 5,000 (INR); half page: 3,000 (INR). For further details or to reserve an ad,please email susangeorge51@gmail.com .

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Güdrun Jecht-Hennig, MD (Germany),Marco Mazzetti, MD (Italy), DoloresMunari Poda (Italy), and Ann Heathcote(UK) are the guest editors for this TAJ.Send inquiries to Marco Mazzetti atmarcomazzetti.at@libero.it .

editorially Yours

was at a book salon recently, the Salon du Livre, which is

held every March in Paris near thePorte de Versailles. I had the honorof being invited to the preopeningnight for professionals only. You maybe imagining, as I did, a quietevening, muted, with deeply reflec-tive authors talking gently withother authors and with publishers.Instead, I found myself quite over-whelmed by the tight, noisy crowdsmilling around. So many people! Somany authors! So many books! And,as an editor told me dispiritedly,fewer and fewer readers (and buy-ers) of books.

In our world, books seem to havebecome a perishable commodity,produced in quantities week afterweek. After a year or two, many ofthem wind up in the shredder andrecycling bin. (I wonder whether e-formats will stay around longer. . . .)This can be seen as just anotherfacet of our fast-moving society, ofcourse. Few things last.

stand and work with social anxiety,La peur de l’autre [Fearing theOther]. They also recently asked meto write an exercise booklet aboutTA (50 exercises to master TA),which two younger colleagues,Hélène Dejean and CatherineFrugier, will finish soon.

In the general transactional analysisarea, Agnès Le Guernic produceda small but very clear introductorybook last year entitled L’analysetransactionnelle: pour mieux se connaître et améliorer ses relations [To Better Know Yourself andImprove Your Relationships] (IxellesEditions, 2009). Les Editionsd’Analyse Transactionnelle, thetransactional analysis publisher that puts out the French-languagejournal Actualités en Analyse Transactionnelle, has published anew book entitled Psychothérapiesd’enfants [Child Psychotherapies] by

Nevertheless, many of us transac-tional analysts still have well-worn,beloved copies of books by Berneand others who have added theirvoices to the transactional analysisliterature over the last 6 decades.And I am happy to report that thecontributions continue, with TAbooks being published regularlyaround the world. In my role as edi-tor of The Script, I occasionally learnof new transactional analysis booksand decided it might be interestingand helpful to our readers to offer alittle summary of those I have heardabout recently. I hope you will enjoylearning about what your colleagueshave been writing.

Starting with what I know best,transactional analysis is still a hottopic for French publishers. Eyrolles,“my publisher” (doesn’t that soundimpressive?), wants me to turn outbooks regularly. They don’t publishall of my books under the heading oftransactional analysis, but there isTA in all of them. And publishershere like TA because people cangrasp and use it easily. They firstinvited France Brécard and me towrite Le grand livre de l’analyse trans-actionnelle [The Big Book of Transac-tional Analysis] a few years ago andthen asked me (Laurie Hawkes) todo one last year on using transac-tional analysis concepts to under-

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Elisabeth Kleinewiese (April2012). In it the author shows howshe uses functional ego states in hertransactional analysis with children.One part was translated (by Mile-na Borsotti) from a book in Ger-man, the other from a book in Eng-lish (by Elyane Alleysson). One ofour Teaching and Supervising Trans-actional Analyst colleagues fromsouthern France, Michèle Benoît-Couturier, has just written Desimages pour soigner [Images forHealing] (De Boeck-Estem, 2012)about using visualization and guid-ed imagery with transactionalanalysis.

Early this year, another French pub-lisher, InterEditions, published anew book about kids in school bythree educational transactionalanalysts. Françoise Hénaff,Agnès Le Guernic, and Chris-tiane Salon wrote Un élève est aussiun enfant [A Pupil Is Also a Child],which is an original offering aboutthe relationships between parents,teachers, and children and how tocreate a high-quality educationalrelationship by raising awareness ofeach person’s situation, mission,expectations, and emotions. Thesame publisher just had anotherEric Berne book, Intuition and EgoStates, translated into French.

In the United Kingdom, recent yearshave also been productive withregard to transactional analysisbooks. In 2010 Karnac publishedLife Scripts: A Transactional Analysisof Unconscious Relational Patterns,edited by Richard Erskine, whichoffers the views of 14 transactionalanalysts on their contemporaryideas about script. Mark Widdow-son’s book Transactional Analysis:100 Key Points and Techniques (Rout-ledge, 2010) takes on the challeng-ing task of presenting the central

Also in the United Kingdom but inthe organizational field, AnitaMountain and Chris Davidsonpublished Working Together: Organi-zational Transactional Analysis andBusiness Performance in 2011 (GowerPublishing). In it they aim to buildan organizational transactionalanalysis instead of applying TA as atheoretical framework to under-stand the dynamics of organization-al functioning and as a method fordesigning change interventions.

In Sweden, Roland Johnsson has justself-published Transactional AnalysisPsychotherapy: Three Methods Describ-ing a Transactional Analysis GroupTherapy (2011, roland@livsterapi.se). It is an excellent presentation ofhis doctoral research for the Depart-ment of Psychology, Lund University.

And in Australia, Tony White wasshort-listed for a literary prize estab-lished by his publisher for his bookWorking with Suicidal Individuals: AGuide to Providing Understanding,Assessment and Support (JessicaKingsley, 2010). In it he uses basictransactional analysis principles toprovide a framework for understand-ing how suicidal decisions are madeand how the practitioner can relateeffectively with suicidal individuals.

So, that is quite a number of newpublications on transactional analy-sis. Clearly, TA still sells books, evenin our modern age. I am sure thereare other TA and TA-related bookscoming out in other countries andlanguages, and we encourage you tolet us know about them (and trans-lations of previously publishedworks) so our network of ITAAmembers can rejoice about the live-liness of our theory!

ideas of transactional analysis theo-ry and practice in 100 sections as anentry in a series published by Rout-ledge that has so far covered cogni-tive therapy, rational emotive thera-py, and family therapy. Mark does acommendable job and has written awell-organized, useful work.

It says a lot about transactionalanalysis being a “saleable” topicthat Sage published in 2011 AnIntroduction to Transactional Analysisby Phil Lapworth and CharlotteSills, which is based on their 1993book Transactional Analysis Coun-selling. Also in 2011 there was thewonderful collection of articles enti-tled Relational Transactional Analysis:Principles in Practice, which was edit-ed by Heather Fowlie and Char-lotte Sills and offers the contribu-tions of many illustrious TA authors.In the education field, HilaryCochrane and Trudi Newtonauthored a book called Supervisionfor Coaches: A Guide to ThoughtfulWork (TA Resources, 2011). Thisworkbook combines practical guid-ance for supervision with reflectionson the roots of supervision, includ-ing recent theories of adult learning.In addition, Susannah Temple hasjust published Maximizing Interper-sonal Effectiveness, a short introduc-tion to the functional fluency modelthat explains how to use our energyeffectively on behalf of ourselvesand others.

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After he said hello

was introduced to transac-tional analysis in 1976 when I

attended a TA 101 in Hamilton,New Zealand, taught by Evan Sher-rard. I was already a trainedteacher, but this started me on anew path in my life and gave meinsight into my own mind. Evanhimself had just returned from sev-eral years in the United States,where he had trained in both chap-laincy and transactional analysis,the latter with Bob and Mary Gould-ing. He was now setting up a highlyinnovative human developmentteam under the auspices of Presby-terian Social Services in Auckland.

I liked the transactional analysisphilosophy immediately, especiallythat we are all essentially OK in ourbeing, even though our doing maybe full of mistakes. It fit with mytheology as an open-minded Chris-tian and my search for ways of con-

TA 202 courses in Auckland, Ienrolled, traveling every week toattend them and steadily deepeningmy understanding. I began attend-ing psychodrama workshops anddiscovered the fascinating power ofdreamwork (mainly Jungian andgestalt) in a fortnightly practicegroup. When the human develop-ment team offered New Zealand’sfirst internship in counseling in1984, part-time, I was in, boots andall, and joined the team as a tutormyself in 1988. After that, full-timework and family tragedies took allmy energy for the next few years.

TA Exams

In the 1990s I refocused on transac-tional analysis, studying for the Cer-tified Transactional Analysis examand reading a lot of Muriel Jamesand Eric Berne. I passed my CTAexam at the San Francisco Confer-ence in 1995 and then attended aweek-long workshop with Murieland John James on “IntegratingSpirituality and Psychology.” I havea delightful memory of sitting on awharf on Lake Tahoe, enjoying thesunshine and chatting with Murielabout my life goals. The followingyear I did the Training EndorsementWorkshop in Sydney and expandedinto formal teaching of transactionalanalysis.

flict resolution. I liked the clear dia-grams that set out basic patterns ofrelating, in plain language, and theobservability of ego states in action.I began to understand that I am notjust a sole agent in leading my lifeaccording to my genes and valuesbut deeply shaped by my parentalmodels and my experience as thefirst-born of six children, whichtaught me early to be self-reliantand responsible. Games were diffi-cult to see, but the idea of scriptmessages was intriguing, especiallythat whatever decisions I had madefor survival could be redecided. Herewas a new awareness opening up! Ibought James and Jongeward’s(1971) Born to Win and read it, work-ing through all the exercises. And mysons soon picked up the basics andmade sure I applied them!

Groundwork

The following year, in my enthusi-asm, I started offering night-classcourses on “Understanding Yourselfwith TA,” which filled easily and ledto great sharing in my groups. I dida course of assertiveness training,which fit well with transactionalanalysis, and some extramural uni-versity papers in psychology, whichI loved. (My master’s degree was inEnglish language and literature.)When Evan Sherrard began to offer

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Dreamwork and Spirituality

After this I began to think aboutintegrating dreamwork with trans-actional analysis, which seemed tohave paid little attention to dreams.Yet I knew from my own experiencethat dreams reflect the core con-cerns in our lives. As I continued tostudy the transactional analysis lit-erature for my Teaching and Super-vising Transactional Analyst exams,I read more of Berne, including hisfirst book, revised and republishedas A Layman’s Guide to Psychiatryand Psychoanalysis (1957/1971). Inow discovered not only a chapteron dreams, written from a Freudianperspective, but also Berne’s writingabout physis. I realized it was a keyconnection, one he had not followedup because he classified physis as a“fourth force of personality” outsideof his “scientific” study of behavior(p. 98). Muriel James had renamedthis spiritual energy source the innercore (James & James, 1991), andPetruska Clarkson (1992) had con-nected it with Berne’s “arrow ofaspiration.” But I think it was EvanSherrard and I who linked physisclearly with the creativity in dreamsand nightmares (Bowater & Sher-rard, 1999).

I found that in his last book Berne(1972, Ch. 9) also mentioned usingdreams as diagnostic indicators ofscript, so I think he may well havepaid more attention to dreams in hispractice than his writing indicated. I

great contribution to the humanisticunderstanding of relationships.

ReFeRenCes

Berne, E. (1971). A layman’s guide topsychiatry and psychoanalysis. London,England: Penguin. (Original work pub-lished 1957)

Berne, E. (1972). What do you say afteryou say hello?: The psychology of humandestiny. London, England: Corgi Books.

Berne, E. (2010). A Montreal childhood.Concordia, Spain: Jeder Books.

Bowater, M., & Sherrard, E. (1999).Dreamwork treatment of nightmaresusing transactional analysis. Transac-tional Analysis Journal, 29, 283-291.

Clarkson, P. (1992). Transactional analy-sis psychotherapy: An integrated ap-proach. London, England: Tavistock-Routledge.

James, M., & James, J. (1991). Passionfor life: Psychology and the human spirit.New York, NY: Dutton.

James, M., & Jongeward, D. (1971).Born to win: Transactional analysis withgestalt experiments. Menlo Park, CA:Addison-Wesley.

Jorgensen, E. W., & Jorgensen, H. I.(1984). Eric Berne: Master gamesman—A transactional biography. New York, NY:Grove Press.

felt sorry that in his drive to obtainacademic recognition for transac-tional analysis he had largelyignored the spiritual side of person-ality. This did not apply to MurielJames, who told me that she hadonly accepted the role of ITAA Presi-dent on the condition that she wouldcontinue to include spirituality in herteaching. She and the Gouldingsincorporated dreams into theirtransactional analysis therapy usinga gestalt process. Since passing theTSTA exams in Sydney in 2001, Ihave continued to deepen my workwith dreams by using a transactionalanalysis redecision process to createnew endings for unfinished dreams,especially nightmares.

Berne Biography

I read the Jorgensen’s (1984) biog-raphy of Berne with interest, admir-ing the way he turned his adoles-cent gaucheness into close observa-tion of other people’s behavior. Ialways like to read biographies ofpeople whose work I am studying tosee how their ideas arose out oftheir early experience and howthose ideas affected their later life.It seems, however, that Berne didnot quite overcome his own worka-holic script.

Eric Berne’s writing has alwaysappealed to me for its economy oflanguage and sardonic wit, though Ithink he must have been depressedwhile writing his last book. It was,therefore a great pleasure for me toread A Montreal Childhood (Berne,2010) recently and to enjoy his en-gaging style, its lively sensory de-scriptions, and the easy flow of lan-guage. I was also touched to gain agreater sense of the influence of hisbeloved father on his growing mind.

I am glad to take this opportunity toexpress my thanks for Eric Berne’s

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