Transactional Analysis as a Social Psychology

Massey, Robert F.

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“…In so doing, it leaves the impacts of the interpersonal on the personal underexamined, contexts/social structures out of focus (Barnes, 1999), and positive development and resilience disregarded (Cornell, 1988). Massey (1996Massey ( , 2006Massey ( , 2008 has suggested that for transactional analysis to become more fully a social psychology, it needs to develop a socialpsychological perspective that recognizes that our sense of self, other, relationships, and social structures arise from and are bound together through social-psychological processes. Culture can thus be seen to have self, interpersonal, and systemic dimensions, all of which can be examined.…”

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Transactional Analysis and Spiral Dynamics

Salters

2011

Transactional Analysis Journal

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The author suggests that in the face of the current global crises that threaten the human species, transactional analysts need to assess their theoretical tools for understanding social development and their ability to contribute usefully to social change. She offers that transactional analysis cannot claim to be a social psychology in the fullest sense and that Clare Graves's theory of psychosocial development (popularized by Beck and Cowan in their 1996 book Spiral Dynamics) may provide some of what is missing in TA theory. She suggests that there is a high level of compatibility between Spiral Dynamics and transactional analysis because both have a developmental perspective and share many concepts. Illustrations based on the author's work show how integrating these two theories enriches the possibilities of working with individuals and groups by allowing therapists and or developmental practitioners and their clients a deeper appreciation of their social context and cultural frame of reference. Finally, the author asks the challenging question of how humans, as a species, will respond to the current threats they face: Will they progress or regress developmentally?

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Transactional Analysis and Spiral Dynamics

Salters

2011

Transactional Analysis Journal

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“…As with every valid theory, transactional analysis must derive from reliable and generalizable observations and serve as an accurate framework for relevant applications (van Kaam, 1969). Transactional analysis theory forms a socialpsychiatric or social-psychological perspective (Berne, 1961(Berne, , 1964Massey, 1993Massey, , 1996 that does not directly address spiritual processes.…”

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“…Like Adler, Berne (1961 emphasized self-in-relationship and interpersonal processes in developing a social psychiatry. Berne thus joined in the neo-Freudian/neo-Adlerian tradition of emphasizing social relations (Massey, I987a, I989a, 1989b(Massey, I987a, I989a, , 1990(Massey, I987a, I989a, , 1993, and he implicitly laid the foundation for a social psychology (Massey, 1987b(Massey, , 1996. Frankl (1946Frankl ( /1965Frankl ( , 1948Frankl ( /1975Frankl ( , 1967Frankl ( , 1969, who was associated with Adler for a time (Spiegelberg, 1972), overlooked the social dimension and built his logotherapy on the premise of human transcendence (Massey, 1988).…”

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Viewing the Transactional Dimensions of Spirituality through Family Prisms

Massey

Dunn

1999

Transactional Analysis Journal

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Berne and subsequent transactional analysts, with the exception of James (1973, 1981b), have paid little attention to spirituality in human development and therapeutic practice. However, spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning figure significantly in the lives of many persons in diverse cultures. Families serve as the prisms through which social influences and unique identities converge in the evolution of spirituality and religious expression. This article describes the use of spirituality-focused genograms to illustrate the interconnecting of spiritual strivings, personal choices, family contexts, and multigenerational processes from a transactional analytic perspective.

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“…As with social psychiatry, there are few discussions of TA as a social psychology—the exceptions being two articles by Price (1978) and Massey (1996) which, by now, are respectively over 40 and nearly 25 years of age. There are, nevertheless, a number of applications of TA to social systems such as nations (Orten, 1973); the ‘dependency cycle’ (Symor, 1977); modern racism (Batts, 1982); and notably, in the work of Jacobs on power (Jacobs, 1987, 1994), nationalism (Jacobs, 1990), and autocracy (Jacobs, 1991).…”

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Transactional analysis and politics: A critical review

Tudor

2020

Psychother Politics Int

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This article offers a critical review of the literature on transactional analysis (TA) and politics. It discusses Eric Berne's own relationship with politics, makes some distinctions between social psychiatry and social psychology, and comments on the influence of radical psychiatry on TA—especially in the 1960s and '70s. Finally, it offers a conceptual framework that categorises the interplay between TA and politics, and gives examples of these different aspects of TA and politics.

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Transactional Analysis as a Social Psychology

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Transactional Analysis and Spiral Dynamics

Transactional Analysis and Spiral Dynamics

Viewing the Transactional Dimensions of Spirituality through Family Prisms

Transactional analysis and politics: A critical review

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