From Transactions to Relations:
The Emergence of a Relational Tradition in Transactional Analysis

Editors: William F Cornell & Helena Hargaden.
The editors are internationally renowned transactional analysts and leading figures in the world of Relational Psychology and Psychotherapy.

Pub date: July 2005
ISBN: 0-9549874-0-3
UK price: £18.99

Background to the Book:

Transactional analysis is a well recognized and effective approach to psychotherapy and counselling, which is also relevant for those who work in organisations and the world of education.
Originally a “one person psychotherapy”, in the last 20 years a new paradigm of Relational Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy has emerged. This movement towards relational therapy has been paralleled by developments in other fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

This Book

This book traces the emergence of the relational paradigm in TA. It draws together 16 seminal articles from the TA literature and tracks the development of a focus on Intersubjectivity and co-creativity in the therapeutic relationship.

Contributing authors:

James Allen, Barbara Allen, Judith Barr, Frances Bonds-White, William Cornell, Richard Erskine, Helena Hargaden, Ingrid Lewis, Carlo Moiso, Michele Novellino, Diana Shmukler, Charlotte Sills, Graeme Summers, Keith Tudor, Ken Woods

Key features

• Challenging and intriguing introductory and closing chapters that include reflections by the editors as well as a review of the literature and the growing trend of relational psychotherapy both within and outside TA.
• 16 groundbreaking articles that trace the emergence of the relational paradigm in TA and the implication of the therapist’s subjectivity in therapeutic movement.
• A comprehensive list of further reading in the TA literature from both established and new authors who are also engaged in taking forward relational TA. This is accompanied by a commentary by the editors.

Reviews of this book

“This is a landmark collection and a clarion call. It's clear that, if you are in the TA world, the book is essential reading, re-positioning and even transforming TA, so that it can take its full place in the new world of the psychotherapies with the accent on relationality and on integration of the diverse traditions.. … If you are not in the TA world, then the book will be revelatory.”
Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex.

“In this well-conceived and timely collection, editors William F Cornell and Helena Hargaden have brought together the exciting cross-fertilization of Transactional Analysis with contemporary developments in Relational Psychoanalysis. …Clinicians of all orientations and levels of experience as well as students of psychotherapy will learn much from this rich volume.”
Lewis Aron, Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

“I think the ‘introduction’ and ‘reflections’ chapters and the articles chosen are brilliant. … I am deeply grateful for this collection … which … contextualizes the work and thinking inside this new field of relational transactional analysis psychotherapy.”
Elana Leigh – TSTA and Director of the Australian Centre for Integrative Studies, Sydney.