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The author presents her work with a male client, choosing those parts of the clinical work that provide a context for the emergence of transgenerational trauma. She proposes that this type of trauma is encoded in multiple unconscious forms and only reveals itself through a nonlinear process requiring the therapist's disciplined and reflective use of her subjectivity. Using the theory of the domains of transference, she describes how previously traumatic self-states in both therapist and client are brought into conscious awareness. The theoretical focus is on episcript, epigenetics, and use of the therapist's subjectivity in the transformational transference as well as the use of symbolism, contemplation, and the discipline of hard reflection and thinking.

The author presents a case study of her work with a female client. She chooses two periods of time in the therapy to explore the unconscious intersubjective nature of the clinical encounter. In part one she describes how an enactment leads to an impasse. Using the theory of the third, she describes how the impasse is resolved, which paves the way for the deeper therapeutic process described in part two. There she shows how previously dissociated traumatic states in both client and therapist are brought into conscious awareness. The theoretical focus is on theories of enactment, thirds, the use of imagination, reverie, and paradigms of the mind.

In her discussion of Erskine's (2013) \"Relational Group Process: Developments in a Transactional Analysis Model of Group Psychotherapy,\" the author reexamines the meaning of several key aspects of group work identified by Erskine, including safety, empathy, and attunement. A distinction is made between empathy and attunement and an argument is offered for the clinical need to create psychological space for enactments in groups. The author proposes that the type of culture developed in a group is influenced by the therapist's consciousness of her or his early trauma, the extent of her or his psychological resilience, and the way theoretical influence has been integrated with practice. A theory of the third is considered as another perspective on the cocreation of respectful attitudes in groups.

This article expresses appreciation to those responsible for the 2007 Eric Berne Memorial Award to Helena Hargaden and Charlotte Sills and then goes on to review relational psychotherapy in the context of the wider field, including some of the principles and philosophy of the approach. The features of the original theory are summarized in order to locate the work within the rapidly developing field of relational transactional analysis.

This article proposes that Berne's focus on the transactional nature of psychotherapy foreshadowed later developments in psychoanalysis that have come to be known as \"relational psychoanalysis.\" Relational psychoanalysis, which introduced the interpersonal and intersubjective experience into traditional psychoanalysis, brought psychoanalysis into a more interactive framework. Given that Berne's intention for transactional analysis was to enable people to communicate more effectively-to move away from games and toward intimacy-the authors offer further thinking about how this aim can be realized by developing relational thinking within transactional analysis. This article builds on ideas that have emerged in the transactional analysis journals of the last 2 decades (Cornell & Hargaden, in press), which provide a template of the evolution of relational transactional analysis. One of the main components of this theoretical perspective is the theory of intersubjectivity. The authors propose that this theory significantly alters the theory of transactional analysis proper and adds a deeper understanding to the transferential relationship. The focus in this article is primarily on the nonverbal aspects of intersubjectivity with a view to building on the relational theory of Hargaden and Sills (2002).

The subject of erotic transference and countertransference is rarely addressed in our training, supervision, or journals. In this chapter, the author proposes that by underestimating the significance of these dynamics we are doing ourselves, our clients, and our profession, a considerable disservice. At the very least one will miss valuable clinical opportunities for change and at the very worst one is discounting the potential for psychological damage to those who come to them in a vulnerable state, seeking help. The author begins the chapter with some personal experiences to highlight how and why the erotic seems to be so threatening. The author sets the notion of the erotic transference in its historical context and, drawing on the work of Gabbard, explores the most likely reasons for sexual transgressions. The author concludes with the importance of recognizing the inherent transformational potential of the erotic and finally suggest a model he have developed, based on relational methodology and techniques.

This chapter shows that the main purpose of script analysis is to elicit the multiple meanings inherent in a person's life script. To do this, the psychotherapist has to find an affective link to the client's unconscious. A relational understanding of projective identification provides an affective connection to the relational unconscious leading to deep emotional intimacy between therapist and client in which both participants are changed. S. Freud says the main difference is that melancholia is unconscious: \"that melancholia is in some way related to an object-loss which is withdrawn from consciousness, in contradistinction to mourning, in which there is nothing about the loss that is unconscious\". In Duncan's relational essay, \"Mourning and melancholia\", Freud describes how melancholia is more than just loss of the object: it proceeds precisely from those experiences that involved the threat of losing the object.