The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy (original) (raw)

Transactional Analysis Journal, 2012

Abstract

This article explores rupture and failure within transactional analysis psychotherapy from ethical, cultural, theoretical, and clinical perspectives. The author offers a relational frame of reference, which views failure and rupture as inevitable and necessary in the therapeutic encounter. A relational therapeutic sequence is described, and a relational aspect is added to Berne's (1972) game formula and illustrated with a case example.

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