India as a Unique Context for Developing Transactional Analysts

Saru, P. K.; Cariapa, Annie; Manacha, Sailaja; Napper, Rosemary

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“…Shotton (2009) promoted the idea of the reflective practitioner negotiating his or her learning across a range of social and political contexts with the aid of transactional analysis as a frame of reference; he examined the tension between institutional and personal power in shaping the learner’s values, beliefs, and behaviors. In the same issue, Saru, Cariapa, Manacha, and Napper (2009) explored how it feels to be an Indian transactional analyst and how the layers of complexities and creativities come alive when trying to translate a person’s lived experience from one ethnically diverse Indian linguistic context using Western concepts and ideas. They suggested that differences can be met in spaces of learning and sharing.…”

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Siddique¹

2017

Transactional Analysis Journal

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The author reviews the literature on supervision and the use of autoethnography as a research method. On this basis she then explores her own ideas for improving cultural reflexivity within models of supervision, with a particular focus on transactional analysis. She suggests that supervisory practice could be enhanced by being aware of the elliptical spaces between personal identity and the professional role, between supervisor and supervisee, and between both individuals and their cultural worlds. Transactional analysis, with its focus on cocreated interactions, offers an opportunity for mutual reflexivity and the application of this elliptical approach. KeywordsTransactional analysis supervision, reflexivity, culture, ellipses, autoethnography, psychotherapy, counseling, anthropologyThe ellipsis is a grammatical tool (…) used in English to show a pause or silence and to indicates the omission or suppression of a word or phrase. As used in modern social technologies, it represents hesitation, intention, or suspension. I use the concept of ellipsis (Clagett, 1959, p. 197) to express a number of statistical, linguistic, and social phenomena whereby the missing material can potentially be recovered through the supervision process. The ellipsis operates from intuition and can offer a potential source for reciprocity. I use it as a metaphor for the kinds of spaces that emerge in supervision and that are especially important to engage in reflectively in supervision that is open and sensitive to cross-cultural differences.Autoethnography a is a form of self-reflection and writing that explores the researcher's personal experience and connects this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings. As a research method, it is used widely in anthropology as a way of looking at the self in relation to others in a cultural context (Ellis, 2004). It offers an opportunity "to uncover, record, interpret and position, from an insider's perspective and experience, the processes supervisors use" (Stewart, 2001-online article) For me, it seems a useful tool for exploring my own position as supervisor and supervisee.Supervision is a multifacted process based on evidence-based practice, which makes it challenging to both learn and impart as a skill. I am suggesting it should incorporate a range of types of research evidence that are valuable in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy (McDonnell, 2011). However, insufficient attention has been given to the cultural aspects of supervision. I will describe a model of cultural reflexivity that can be used to enhance our understanding of the supervisory role within supervision in general and how it can be used in transactional analysis (TA) supervision in particular. I aim to explore the "foundations and assumptions" (Jones & Mehr, 2007, p766) of the psychotherapy supervision in the hope that doing so will guide counseling and psychotherapy research and metasynthesis so as to better inform practice decisions around supervision.H...

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Section: Review Of the Supervision Literaturementioning

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Siddique¹

2017

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“…This theme of the context of India and the guru was continued when Rosemary Napper interviewed Saru, Annie Cariapa and Sailaja Manacha (Saru, Cariapa, Manacha with Napper, 2009). Saru pointed out that "India is one of the most ancient civilisations in the world.…”

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TA Contributions from India

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2019

Int J Transactional Anal Res & Pract

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Produced originally as the content for an opening speech and associated workshop at the ITAA/SAATA Conference in Kochi, India in August 2018, the following contains a review of theoretical contributions from authors based in India between 1993 and 2018. In particular, the wide-ranging contributions of Os Summerton and Pearl Drego are described, along with a review of the activities of Father George Kandathil and of others on the subjects of the guru, ethics, universal consciousness and conflict strategies. Two themes are extracted: practical ideas and models, and the cultural and spiritual nature of Indian society, with an expansion of Berne’s concept of autonomy into five components that are linked to Indian philosophy.

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“…“Training for me,” writes P. K. Saru, “is an evolutionary process wherein both trainer and participant mutually evolve, learn, and integrate within and outside the self” (Saru, Cariapa, & Manacha with Napper, 2009, p. 326). Indeed, what I observe is that in attending to others’ learning processes, as facilitator and without any stated goal for my own learning, such attention appears to stimulate and facilitate learning that matters greatly to me.…”

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Looking for Trouble in Groups Developing the Professional’s Capacity

Landaiche¹

2013

Transactional Analysis Journal

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Disorganization and terror may be unavoidable in groups that are developing the professional's capacity to bear the troubles of human life, in every field of practice. As a response to such experiences, the author engages with two recurrent, researchable questions: When facilitating professional growth, what is the framework for recovering thoughtfulness amid such distress? And what are the evolving challenges of the group's designated leader?

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India as a Unique Context for Developing Transactional Analysts

Abstract: This article describes the authors' experiences as transactional analysis trainers and learners in the unique context created by India's social, cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic diversity and how this context impacts the multiple roles of trainers and learners.

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