Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns 1st edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: About the Editor and Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Life Scripts: unconscious relational patterns and psychotherapeutic involvement / Richard G. Erskine -- Chapter 2. The lived and narrated script: an ongoing narrative construction / Maria Teresa Tosi -- Chapter 3. When parting is not such sweet sorrow: Mourning and melancholia, projective identification, and script analysis / Helena Hargaden -- Chapter 4. Script or scripture? / Jo Stuthridge -- Chapter 5. Whose body is it? Somatic relations in script and script protocol / William F. Cornell -- Chapter 6. The three ways out: escape hatches / Ian Stewart -- Chapter 7. From a child psychiatry practice / James R. Allen -- Chapter 8. The individual in context: how do I fit in around here? / Rosemary Napper -- Chapter 9. Scripts: then and now / Claude Steiner -- Chapter 10. It takes a lifetime to play out a script / Fanita English -- Chapter 11. Life scripts: an existential perspective / Birgitta Heiller, Charlotte Sills -- Chapter 12. Transgenerational scripts: the unknown knowledge / Gloria Noriega -- Chapter 13. The script system: an unconscious organization of experience / Marye O'Reilly-Knapp, Richard G. Erskine -- Index. Publisher Marketing: "Life Scripts" is an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods. Each chapter describes an evolution of Eric Berne's original theory and brings together a stimulating range of international perspectives, theoretical positions, clinical experiences and psychotherapy practices. Each chapter contains a psychotherapy story that illustrates the theory. The concept of Life Scripts has frequently been associated with the determinism represented in theoretical scripts, yet, this book offers some new and diverse perspectives; a few chapters address the significance of early childhood experiences in forming a Life Script while other chapters reflect the perspectives of post-modernism, constructivism, existential philosophy, neuroscience, developmental research, mythology and the importance of narrative. ContributorsJames R. Allen, M. D. (USA), William F. Cornell, MA. (USA), Fanita English, MSW. (USA), Gloria Noriega Gayol, Ph. D. (Mexico), Helena Hargaden, Ph. D. (UK), Birgitta Heiller, Ph. D. (UK), Rosemary Napper, M. E. (UK), Marye O Reilly-Knapp, Ph. D. (USA), Charlotte Sills, MA, MSc. (UK), Claude Steiner, Ph. D. (UK), Ian Stewart, Ph. D. (UK), Jo Stuthridge, M. Sc. (New Zealand), Maria Teresa Tosi, Ph. D. (Italy)"

Contributor Bio:  Erskine, Richard G Richard Erskine is Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City and Kent, Connecticut. He is Visiting Professor of Psychotherapy, University of Derby, UK, and serves on the faculties of several psychotherapy training institutes around the world. He has authored numerous articles on psychotherapy theory and clinical practice.