Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns: Theoretical Integration and Therapeutic Involvement

Erskine, Richard G.

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“…This is work that I have attempted to do within the body psychotherapy tradition by reflecting on the developmental steps we went through over the last 30 years (Soth 2005a(Soth , 2008. I see similar work being carried out within transactional analysis by Cornell (2008b), Erskine (2007Erskine ( , 2009, and clearly also by Little (2013) in his article I am discussing here.…”

Section: The Legacies We Have Inherited From the 1960ssupporting

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We Are All Relational, but Are Some More Relational Than Others?

Soth¹

2013

Transactional Analysis Journal

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This article discusses Ray Little's (2013) integration of humanistic transactional analysis with both traditional and relational psychoanalysis from the vantage point of a wider, broad-spectrum integrative perspective, with particular emphasis on TA's sister tradition of body psychotherapy. The growing consensus across diverse therapeutic approaches regarding the developmental origins of relational patterns is acknowledged. The problems, inconsistencies, and contradictions within the integrative project are discussed, with particular reference to the origins of humanistic psychology during the 1960s and their partially reactive differentiation against psychoanalysis, which leaves today's practitioners with unresolved legacies in the form of fixed assumptions regarding both theory and practice as well as key concepts such as ego and working alliance. Taking the key notion of the therapist's equidistant position between the needed and repeated relationship as its starting point, the author suggests that enactment is the central notion of relationality. A multiplicity of diverse therapeutic kinds of relatedness is affirmed as valid, and different notions of the relational and inconsistencies and ambivalences in integrative formulations are addressed. The aim is to reach a more solid, robust integration that is grounded in a bodymind understanding of enactment as the paradoxical essence of therapeutic action.Ray Little (2013) does an urgent, significant, and sterling job in bringing together transactional analysis and psychoanalysis (especially its relational branch). His grasp of the two traditions and their historical roots, respective metapsychologies, and, in some respects, contradictory paradigms allows him to fashion an attempt at integration that combines the best of both worlds, one that is larger than the sum of its parts. This work constitutes a quantum leap that takes transactional analysis a long way beyond its origins in the 1960s toward the twenty-first century.

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We Are All Relational, but Are Some More Relational Than Others?

Soth¹

2013

Transactional Analysis Journal

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“…This was to raise awareness of what she had lacked in childhood and to allow her to restore her integrity. Julie had definitely opted for an avoidant attachment style (Erskine, 2009;Main, 1995) over 15 years of childhood.…”

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The ‘taming’ of Julie and her avoidant attachment style

Perret¹

2017

Int J Transactional Anal Res & Pract

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SummaryIn this case study, I present the application of the model developed by Richard Erskine of 'Self in Relationship' to a client who I will call Julie. I describe the open and closed domains of contact that I observed at the beginning of the work. Then I explain how I bring this client to a state of awakening of the anaesthetised domains through an implied accompaniment and full contact, whilst respecting her avoidant attachment style.

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“…Una perspectiva de Análisis Transaccional Relacional (Cornell, 2008; Fowlie y Sills, 2011) y emplear la indagación fenomenológica e histórica, la validación y la normalización resultarían cruciales en nuestro diálogo terapéutico (Erskine, Moursund y Trautmann, 1999;Erskine y Trautmann, 1996). Por ahora, era evidente que necesitaba mi atención y reconocimiento a los pequeños matices de la emoción y a los patrones de apego, o desapego, codificados en sus narraciones (Erskine, 2009). Eric Berne describió ocho "operaciones terapéuticas" que aplicó en la psicoterapia y sugirió el uso de la "interrogación" y la "especificación" como el paso inicial en la recopilación de información (1966, p. 233-247).…”

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Análisis Transaccional de la Obsesión: Integrando Diversos Conceptos y Métodos

Erskine¹

2017

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Los problemas psicológicos tales como la fantasía repetitiva, la preocupación habitual y la obsesión parecen haberse incrementado en los últimos años entre las personas que buscan psicoterapia. Este tipo de problemas parecen trascender muchos diagnósticos psicológicos. Obsesionarse y preocuparse de forma habitual puede encontrarse entre los principales temas de tratamiento de nuestra época, son reflejos de un estilo de vida y de las presiones profesionales, de experiencias evolutivas, de déficits en las relaciones interpersonales, y de aspectos del Guion de Vida. Cuando se aborda en la psicoterapia, esta rumiación podría recibir solamente una atención superficial o no parecer pertinente a los aspectos del Guion de Vida. Sin embargo, la preocupación habitual y las fantasías repetitivas absorben gran parte de la actividad mental y dificultan en la persona su capacidad para la espontaneidad, la intimidad, y el disfrute de la vida en el presente. Desde el modelo del Análisis Transaccional Relacional y el modelo de la Psicoterapia Integrativa se presenta una perspectiva de tratamiento de seis facetas para la psicoterapia de la obsesión, la preocupación habitual y la fantasía repetitiva. Además, se ilustra con un caso clínico en el que se muestra el tratamiento de seis facetas, así como, diversas intervenciones integrando distintos conceptos y métodos para el tratamiento de la obsesión, desde los modelos psicoterapéuticos anteriormente mencionados.

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Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns: Theoretical Integration and Therapeutic Involvement

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

We Are All Relational, but Are Some More Relational Than Others?

We Are All Relational, but Are Some More Relational Than Others?

The ‘taming’ of Julie and her avoidant attachment style

Análisis Transaccional de la Obsesión: Integrando Diversos Conceptos y Métodos

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