Title: Transactional analysis and the wider world: the politics and psychology of alienation
Abstract:Alienation as a description of the dynamics of social organization is a theme for politics, economics, and sociology. Additionally, as a way of defining human disconnection, it is a theme for psychoth...Alienation as a description of the dynamics of social organization is a theme for politics, economics, and sociology. Additionally, as a way of defining human disconnection, it is a theme for psychotherapy. This chapter talks about the move between the social, cultural, political, personal, and the psychological definitions. Drawing on principles and ideas from relational psychotherapy and radical psychiatry, the chapter describes and discusses the work with a black Jamaican woman, whom the author call Colleen. Colleen was referred by her GP for depression following work-related stress provoked partly by "explicit" and "implicit" racism. She had also acquired diabetes, complicated in some ways by self-neglect. Recognizing the countertransference to Colleen's passive self enabled him to monitor his energy levels and notice when Colleen's power seemed diminished. In the chapter, the author considered how Colleen and he shared early social and cultural experiences of isolation.Read More
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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