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Using the easily understood vocabulary of Transactional Analysis and her own original contribution to the theory, Mavis Klein presents a handbook that will vividly illuminate and clarify all the issues that arise in our everyday communications. While the aim of this book is primarily to overcome problems in people's working lives - with line managers, subordinates, and peer group colleagues, it provides stunning insight into all that takes place when we talk to others - from a time-passing chat to a stranger at a bus stop to the most profound conversations with intimate others in our lives. ,
Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Approach is the first advanced clinical textbook for many years, written for psychotherapists and counsellors who use the theory and techniques of Transactional Analysis in their practice or who are interested in expanding their repertoire. Clarkson provides a comprehensive guide to goal-setting and clinical planning for every stage of treatment. Not only a practical textbook relevant to modern developments in supervision, but one which makes a new and original contribution to ways of thinking about transference and countertransference, the theory of self and the process of psychotherapeutic change.
This handbook discriminates clearly between the responsibilities, cognitive understanding, and the feelings of the practitioner. It is intended to be useful to all "humanistic" therapists and counsellors irrespective of their particular theoretical orientation.
If human life, as the author argues, is a constant and desperate bid to compensate for our mortality, then the desire to love and to be loved is our greatest imagined panacea against the fact of our death. In modern Western society our problems have changed: now, with our stomachs full, our need to feel we are struggling to survive has become increasingly focussed on a growing dissatisfaction and insecurity in our personal relationships. Drawing on her 35 years' experience as an individual and group psychotherapist, Mavis Klein here elaborates her original theory of five basic personality types, ten compound types, and fifteen ways in which the basic types interact with each other in our relationships to others. She clearly elucidates the behaviours that disguise our often self-induced pains, and how these pains can be transmuted into our greatest talents and joy. This book addresses the reality of the world we are so often unwilling to accept: the irrational and violent world of shame, doubt, guilt, fear, love and hate. ,
A succinct guide to psychodynamic theory and practice for those who want an authoritative synopsis by expert author, Mavis Klein.
This book is a collection of 17 independent, opinionated and provocative essays on the various conceptual experiences of being human. Topics include: Ego States, Strokes and Transactions, Our Species, Duality Rules OK, Realities, Languages and Theories, Five Personality Types, Compound Personality Types, Personality Types in Relationships, The Enemies of Love, Men and Women, Morality, The Quest for Happiness, The Issue of Astrology, Life Stages, Zeitgeist, and The Life and Death of God. Most serious books are thought marathons; this serious book is a collection of thought sprints - perfect mind-bending for between stops on bus or train. ,
Parenting can be the most pleasurable and worthwhile task in the world. But how can we be sure we are doing it right? This is an A-Z guide to the psychology of parenting, covering 175 key topics, from adolescence and working mums to thumbsucking, dyslexia and discipline, in an easily accessible and reassuring way.
This fully revised and updated second edition: * outlines the main components and distinctive characteristics of interpersonal communication * offers detailed analysis of communication structures, considering their everyday applications and implications * includes new material on race, gender and sexuality * looks to the future of interpersonal communication.
Understanding Your Child is an A-Z guide to the psychology of parenting. It gives parents reassurance and confidence in their parenting skills. Mavis Klein is a highly respected family and child psychotherapist and she combines her opinions and advice with the psychoanalytic view of child development (based on Freud) and the theory of transactional analysis (based on Eric Berne). The result is a reference book to which all parents who are concerned about their psychological relationship with their child will want to refer.