At the interface of transactional analysis, psychoanalysis, and body psychotherapy : clinical and theoretical perspectives / William F Cornell

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Opening to the vitality of unconscious experience -- Play at your own risk : games, play, and intimacy -- Fostering freedom for play, imagination, and uncertainty in professional learning environments --The intricate intimacies of psychotherapy and questions of self-disclosure --Failing to do the job : when the client pays the price for the therapist's countertransference --Life script : a critical review from a developmental perspective --Babies, brains, and bodies : somatic foundations of the child ego state --"My body is unhappy" : somatic foundations of script and script protocol --Aspiration or adaptation? : an unresolved tension in Eric Berne's basic beliefs --What do you say if you don't say unconscious? : dilemmas created for transactional analysis by Berne's shift away from the language of unconscious experience --Impasse and intimacy : applying Berne's concept of script protocol, coauthored with N.M. Landaiche, III --Nonconscious processes and self development : key concepts from Eric Berne and Chstopher Bollas, coauthored with N.M. Landaiche, III --The old stone house : Eric Berne's memories and mourning for his father's life and death --Grief, mourning, and meaning : in a personal voice --The inevitability of uncertainty, the necessity of doubt, and the development of trust --In conflict and community : a century of turbulence working and living in groups.

At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis, and Body Psychotherapy revolves around two intertwined themes: that of the critique and expansion of the theory and practice of transactional analysis and that of the generative richness discovered at the intersection of transactional analysis, psychoanalysis, and somatic psychotherapy.