Radical Relational Psychiatry: Toward a Democracy of Mind and People

Defense Mechanisms and Borderline Personality Organization Among COVID-19 Believers and Non-believers During Complete Lock-Down

“…The described above association between denying or minimizing the event and borderline personality organization may go beyond the COVID-19 related phenomena and be universal. As Minikin ( 32 ) shows, intolerance feeds regressive defenses such as splitting, which relates to alienation. The latter is viewed as the root cause of all mental and social distress.…”

Transactional analysis and our philosophical premises: 70 years on

“…There is another movement emerging within our field—that of context. Back to socio/political roots, transactional analysis is finding ways to think and write about the concerns of our time and the psychological and social responses (e.g., Minikin, 2018; Cornell, 2018). In terms of my identity as a transactional analyst, I have learnt in the tradition of relational psychotherapy and developed a political and psychodynamic leaning as psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer.…”

Transactional analysis and politics: A critical review

“… Analysing ‘evil men’ in terms of ego and physis (Berne, 1947) Developing and applying the concept of the cultural script (Campos, 2015; Drego, 1983; James & Jongeward, 1971/1978; J. D. White & White, 1975; J. James, 1983, 1984), including women's scripts (M. James, 1973; Wyckoff, 1971), and lesbian identity (Johnson, 2004) Applying TA to nations in terms of structural (ego state) analysis, international transactions, and national positions, scripts, and games (Orten, 1973) Applying game theory to organisations and identifying political games (Poindexter, 1975) Applying TA (especially script theory) to racism (Batts, 1982, 1983) Contracting for peace (Roberts, 1974) Analysing the Master‐Slave relationship (English, 1987; Jacobs, 1991) Analysing the contribution and potential of TA psychotherapy in enhancing citizenship (Tudor & Hargaden, 2002) Developing a social matrix of globalisation using ego state theory (Mihailovic & Mihailovic, 2004) Viewing the political arena as a source of learning for leadership (van Peolje, 2004) Questioning how relational TA concepts (Summers & Tudor, 2000) can address and challenge oppressive dynamics (see Rowland, 2016) Offering a transactional analysis of war and peace using TA proper and game analysis (Campos, 2014) Applying the concept of mystification to politics (Minikin, 2018) …”

“…James, 1983J. James, , 1984, including women's scripts (M. James, 1973;Wyckoff, 1971), and lesbian identity (Johnson, 2004) � Applying TA to nations in terms of structural (ego state) analysis, international transactions, and national positions, scripts, and games (Orten, 1973) � Applying game theory to organisations and identifying political games (Poindexter, 1975) � Applying TA (especially script theory) to racism (Batts, 1982(Batts, , 1983 � Contracting for peace (Roberts, 1974) � Analysing the Master-Slave relationship (English, 1987;Jacobs, 1991) � Analysing the contribution and potential of TA psychotherapy in enhancing citizenship (Tudor & Hargaden, 2002) � Developing a social matrix of globalisation using ego state theory (Mihailovic & Mihailovic, 2004) � Viewing the political arena as a source of learning for leadership (van Peolje, 2004) � Questioning how relational TA concepts (Summers & Tudor, 2000) can address and challenge oppressive dynamics (see Rowland, 2016) � Offering a transactional analysis of war and peace using TA proper and game analysis (Campos, 2014) � Applying the concept of mystification to politics (Minikin, 2018) Notwithstanding the caution of applying theory founded in individual psychology to the wider social/political world (see Karakashian, 1974;Rogers, 1959; and 3.2 above), these analyses have merit. Furthermore, some TSTAs, especially those in the organisational field, have been developing field-specific theory, that is, an analysis of organisations, their pulsations (Mohr, 2006), imago (Suriyaprakash & Mohanraj, 2006), and roles (Schmid, 2008), based on organisational analysis, a strategy which, I suggest, perhaps points the way to a more politically informed TA of politics that may even become another field of application of TA as has been suggested by Mohr (personal communication, 28th June 2020).…”