“…Psychotherapy and Politics International devoted its last edition to these problems, and a quote from its guest editor, Deborah Lee, illustrates the point of therapist writing of their work as a human being rather than ‘expert’. Also writing in the time of COVID, Lee (2020) commented:perhaps there is no better time than at arguably the worst of times to offer a collection which clearly position therapists as human beings and to present doing so as a political act for our times. To set to rest once and for all maybe, notions that therapists who write the self are naive, troubled souls unethically oversharing as they struggle with difficult and unusual lives.…”
Section: A Note About Writing Stylementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also writing in the time of COVID, Lee (2020) commented: perhaps there is no better time than at arguably the worst of times to offer a collection which clearly position therapists as human beings and to present doing so as a political act for our times. To set to rest once and for all maybe, notions that therapists who write the self are naive, troubled souls unethically oversharing as they struggle with difficult and unusual lives.…”
In this article, I articulate the challenges and reshaping that the global pandemic has brought to the practice and ethics of a relational transactional analysis psychotherapy. I describe the interweave of political, social and psychosocial contexts which have led to life‐threatening emergencies within a society in which inequalities are endemic; and link the impact of these contexts to a relational transactional analysis practice using, as a compass, features of classical transactional analysis, radical psychiatry and feminist thought. I outline an approach to the work which accounts for the life‐changing impact of the pandemic, which I call ‘the COVID Third’. Speaking from the experience of COVID‐19 in the United Kingdom, I imagine, other countries will have experienced different political situations but have associated emotional personal responses which are brought to psychotherapy.
“…Psychotherapy and Politics International devoted its last edition to these problems, and a quote from its guest editor, Deborah Lee, illustrates the point of therapist writing of their work as a human being rather than ‘expert’. Also writing in the time of COVID, Lee (2020) commented:perhaps there is no better time than at arguably the worst of times to offer a collection which clearly position therapists as human beings and to present doing so as a political act for our times. To set to rest once and for all maybe, notions that therapists who write the self are naive, troubled souls unethically oversharing as they struggle with difficult and unusual lives.…”
Section: A Note About Writing Stylementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also writing in the time of COVID, Lee (2020) commented: perhaps there is no better time than at arguably the worst of times to offer a collection which clearly position therapists as human beings and to present doing so as a political act for our times. To set to rest once and for all maybe, notions that therapists who write the self are naive, troubled souls unethically oversharing as they struggle with difficult and unusual lives.…”
In this article, I articulate the challenges and reshaping that the global pandemic has brought to the practice and ethics of a relational transactional analysis psychotherapy. I describe the interweave of political, social and psychosocial contexts which have led to life‐threatening emergencies within a society in which inequalities are endemic; and link the impact of these contexts to a relational transactional analysis practice using, as a compass, features of classical transactional analysis, radical psychiatry and feminist thought. I outline an approach to the work which accounts for the life‐changing impact of the pandemic, which I call ‘the COVID Third’. Speaking from the experience of COVID‐19 in the United Kingdom, I imagine, other countries will have experienced different political situations but have associated emotional personal responses which are brought to psychotherapy.
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