Existential Perspectives in Transactional Analysis: The Development of the Adult Self and the Human Search for Meaning (Innovations in Transactional Analysis: Theory and Practice)

This book offers experienced practitioners and trainees in psychotherapy and counselling a new, deeply personal and theoretically-grounded perspective on clinical work that integrates existential philosophy and psychotherapy into a relational transactional analysis. The author employs a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in the traditions of Berne’s transactional analysis, whilst providing an easily accessible explanation of existential psychotherapy and the existential givens of life.An innovative theory for the development of the adult self is offered that can be used to understand our human search for meaning and the existential life predicaments we all encounter as adults that may not originate from a difficult childhood.Using moving and personal clinical examples from her extensive professional experience as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, the author highlights the different therapeutic skills that can be used when working from this stance, making this a highly prac