Radical-Relational Perspectives in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: Oppression, Alienation, Reclamation [Paperback]

In this work Minikin moves fluidly from the macro to the micro, from the street to the clinic, from the individual to the State. She sets about politicising Transactional Analytic practice and thinking, and at the same time brings Transactional Analytic ideas to throw light on human lives as they are lived in socio-political zones of strife and conflict. Personal anecdote and case illustration helpfully leaven and lighten the work, making it a very accessible read.

Farhad Dalal, Psychotherapist, Group Analyst and Author of 'CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami'

This book outlines the threads of journeying to freedom and liberation from societal and internalised oppression in relationships between therapists and clients. Readers are encouraged to consider next steps after awareness and recognise other dimensions than traditional thinking. Interspersed with reflective case examples that process and influence the therapists attitude and values, the author examines privileged systems that therapists may be working within and the development of identity as a socio-political approach. A book packed with insights and reasoning to support compassion and the therapists self-reflection as key elements of relational approaches and a tool for reforming alienation. An essential reader that outlines development of a radical approach to decolonising psychotherapy.

Dr Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer.

Karen Minikin elegantly re-visions and revitalises the theory and practice of transactional analysis as she takes up the concept of alienation as defined by Steiner et al in 1975, and explores it as the chief source of stress, distress and trauma in society - with connectedness in relationship as the source of liberation. She explores alienation from everyl31