Selling over 25, 000 copies across three editions, this book provides an unrivalled introduction to the core concepts and basic techniques of Transactional Analysis (TA). Ian Stewart guides the reader step-by-step through the successive stages in using TA to create therapeutic change, building understanding of the way the approach works in real-life practice.
Key features of this new edition include:
-a single extended case study running through the book
-′Key ideas′ panels to summarize the main ideas in each section
-Detailed discussion of ′closing the escape hatches′: TA′s distinctive approach to resolving the issues of suicide, self-harm or violence
-Practice Checklists offering suggested questions readers can use to appraise their own work with clients at strategic points in the text
– Space for Reflection sections and Further Reading lists to conclude each chapter.
This bestselling textbook offers trainee and practising psychotherapists and counsellors a concise, hands-on exploration of current concepts and techniques in Transactional Analysis.
Ian Stewart is Co-Director of The Berne Institute, Nottingham. He is the author of Eric Berne (SAGE, 1992) and Developing Transactional Analysis Counselling (SAGE, 1996), and co-author of TA Today (2nd edn, Lifespace, 2012).
Table of Content
PART ONE: THE TA FRAMEWORK
Counselling with TA
Planning the Route to Change
Mapping the Structure of Problems
Separating Past from Present
PART TWO: THE PROCESS OF COUNSELLING WITH TA
Taking the First Steps
Exploring a Childhood Life-Plan
Forestalling Tragic Outcomes
Making Contracts for Change
Challenging Outdated Beliefs
Making New Decisions
Ending Counselling
References
Index
About the author
Ian Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1940. He received his secondary education at Glasgow Academy and went on to study at Pembroke College, Oxford. Graduating in 1961, he worked for five years in the scientific Civil Service in Edinburgh. In 1966 he emigrated to England to take up a Research Fellowship at Nottingham University. On conclusion of his research contract he stayed on at Nottingham as a lecturer, gaining his Ph D degree in 1970.
Ian′s first contact with psychotherapy was as a client. While continuing his own personal therapy, he developed a growing interest in the theory and method of psychotherapy generally and transactional analysis in particular. He entered formal TA training in 1979, and gained accreditation as a TA practitioner in 1984. For several years Ian followed two parallel careers, as lecturer and as psychotherapist. In the end, psychotherapy won the day: in 1989 Ian resigned his university lectureship to pursue a full-time career as a TA psychotherapist, writer and trainer.
Ian is the author, with co-author Vann Joines, of the basic text on transactional analysis, TA Today. First published in 1987, the book has been translated into fifteen languages and is widely regarded as the world-standard introduction to its subject. Its second edition appeared in 2012. Ian is Co-Director of The Berne Institute, a TA training centre which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2013.
Ian lives in a small village in the backwoods of Leicestershire, together with his wife and three cats. His leisure interests include Morris dancing, cycling, fitness activities generally, and the appreciation of real ale.
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