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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785255703321

Autore

G. Erskine Richard

Titolo

Life scripts : a transactional analysis of unconscious relational patterns / / edited by Richard G. Erskine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

9780429476686

042947668X

9780429915680

0429915683

9780429901454

0429901453

1282779885

9786612779886

1849407436

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

150.195

616.8914

Soggetti

Transactional analysis

Psychotherapy - Methodology

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: London: Karnac, 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; About The Authors; Foreword; Chapter One: Life scripts: unconscious relational patterns and psychotherapeutic involvement; Chapter Two: The lived and narrated script: an ongoing narrative construction; Chapter Three: When parting is not such sweet sorrow: "Mourning and melancholia," projective identification, and script analysis; Chapter Four: Script or scripture?; Chapter Five: Whose body is it? Somatic relations in script and script protocol; Chapter Six: The "three ways out": escape hatches; Chapter Seven: From a child psychiatry practice

Chapter Eight: The individual in context: how do I fit in around here?Chapter Nine: Scripts: then and now; Chapter Ten: It takes a lifetime to



play out a script; Chapter Eleven: Life scripts: an existential perspective; Chapter Twelve: Transgenerational scripts: the unknown knowledge; Chapter Thirteen: The script system: an unconscious organization of experience

Sommario/riassunto

Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns is an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods. Each chapter describes an evolution of Eric Berne's original theory and brings together a stimulating range of international perspectives, theoretical positions, clinical experiences and psychotherapy practices, as well as a psychotherapy story that illustrates the theory. The concept of Life Scripts has frequently been associated with the determinism represented in theoretical scripts, yet, this book offers some new a