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`This is an excellent book. Whilst specifically aimed at the "newer counsellor", this book contains much that will be of interest to experienced practitioners both within and outside of TA... this book is an excellent guide to implementing TA techniques and treatment planning particularly from a Process Model perspective. It incorporates many new ideas which will make it refreshing and inspiring for both new and experienced counsellors and psychotherapists' - ITA News This concise workbook provides 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills. After a brief introductory section that summarizes the esse
Presuppose the ‘One-Session Cure’
Presuppose the ‘One-Session Cure’
Eric Berne used to urge his students to ‘cure their patients in one session’. In this first Point, I am suggesting that you open your mind to this ideal of Berne's, the ‘one-session cure’.
Some traditionally-minded professionals might find Berne's recommendation startling, to say the least. They might feel that it trivialises the long and tortuous process which (for them) marks out the true course of personal change. Indeed, some transactional analysts have sought to make Berne look more ‘respectable’ by pointing out that this was just one example of his trick of making valid points through the use of exaggeration. Everybody knows, they say, that it is usually not possible to cure people in a single session; Berne was ...
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