“…This Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) is the sixth of a series of seven, and belongs to an Italian systematic replication of findings from previous case series (Widdowson 2012a(Widdowson , 2012b(Widdowson , 2012c(Widdowson , 2013(Widdowson , 2014Benelli, 2016aBenelli, , 2016bBenelli, , 2016cBenelli, , 2017aBenelli, , 2017bBenelli, , 2017c and is conducted under the auspices of the project 'Transactional Analysis meets Academic Research in order to become an Empirically Supported Treatment: an Italian two-year plan for publishing evidence of Transactional Analysis efficacy and effectiveness into worldwide recognized scientific journals', funded by the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA). Previous publications have widely described the rationale for supporting by HSCED the accumulation of evidences of efficacy and effectiveness for those models of psychotherapy that are emerging or marginalized (Benelli, De Carlo, Biffi & McLeod, 2015) and specifically how this is important for recognition of TA and inclusion within the acknowledged treatments for common mental disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety and personality disorders) (Widdowson 2012a(Widdowson , 2012b(Widdowson , 2012c(Widdowson , 2013(Widdowson , 2014Benelli, 2016aBenelli, , 2016bBenelli, , 2016cBenelli, , 2017aBenelli, , 2017bBenelli, , 2017c.…”