At the Interface of Transactional Analysis Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

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At the Interface of Transactional Analysis Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy revolves around two intertwined themes: that of the critique and expansion of the theory and practice of transactional analysis and that of the generative richness discovered at the intersection of transactional analysis psychoanalysis and somatic psychotherapy. William F. Cornell explores the work of psychotherapists and counsellors through the lenses of clinical theory practice supervision and ethics. The reader is thus invited into a more vivid experience of being engaged and touched by this work’s often deep and at times difficult intimacy. The book is grounded in the approaches of contemporary transactional analysis and psychoanalysis using detailed case discussions to convey the flesh of these professional and yet all too human working relationships. Attention is paid to the force and richness of the transferential and countertransferential tensions that pervade and enliven the therapeutic process. Unconscious processes are viewed as fundamentally creative and life-seeking with the vital functions of fantasy imagination and play brought into the foreground. In the era of short-term cognitive-behavioural solution-focused and evidence-based models of counselling and psychotherapy At the Interface of Transactional Analysis Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy seeks to demonstrate the power and creativity of longer-term dynamically oriented work. | At the Interface of Transactional Analysis Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives