Keith Tudor is professor of psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand where he is also a cöLead of Moana Nui-Centre for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He has been involved with transactional analysis (TA) for over 40 years and is a Certified and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the field of psychotherapy. He is a well¿published author and editor in the field, with over 100 publications about TA, including most recently an edited book: Claude Steiner, Emotional Activist (Routledge, 2020). He has a small private practice as a therapist, trainer, and supervisor, based in West Auckland.

Introduction

PART I: Basic assumptions

Introduction

1. 'We are': the fundamental life position (2016)

2. There's methodology in the contractual method: philosophy in practice

3. Permission, protection, and potency-the 3 Ps, reconsidered (2016)

PART II: New wine from old roots

Introduction

4. 'I'm OK, you're OK-and they're OK': therapeutic relationships in transactional analysis (1999)

5. From transactional analysis to transactional relating: the gift of the present, and the reality of context

6. The state of the ego: then and now (2010)

7. We've had 66 years of ego states and the world's getting worse

8. Shame, shaming, and 'shame': a transactional analysis (1995)

9. Growth: old scripts, new narratives

10. Regulation and registration: protection or protectionism? A plea for pluralism (2010b)

11. Gaming and playing: re-reading Games People Play

PART III: Looking back, looking forward

Introduction

12 . Honouring our tradition(s), developing personal praxis

13. Live long and prosper: a Vulcan view of transactional analysis

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