Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy with Clients who are Neurodivergent: Experiences and Practice Recommendations

Gifts in psychotherapy: Practice review and recommendations.

The presentation of gifts in psychotherapy, whether to or from the therapist, does not happen frequently, but its occurrence may nevertheless be quite provocative. This practice review summarizes theoretical and clinical perspectives regarding gifts in therapy, reviews the minimal extant literature on this topic, and offers recommendations for practice and research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c...

Liberating Psychotherapy: Liberation Psychology and Psychotherapy with LGBT Clients

A qualitative meta-analysis examining clients' experiences of psychotherapy: A new agenda.

This article argues that psychotherapy practitioners and researchers should be informed by the substantive body of qualitative evidence that has been gathered to represent clients' own experiences of therapy. The current meta-analysis examined qualitative research studies analyzing clients' experiences within adult individual psychotherapy that appeared in English-language journals. This omnibu...

TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS PSYCHOTHERAPY Three Methods Describing a Transactional Analysis Group Therapy

The overall aim of the present thesis was to enhance and revive the practical understanding of the active ingredients in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (TA) and to define and lay down elements of TA, which makes it a distinct and replicable method of treatment. The thesis includes three empirical studies of a videotaped one-year long TA Group Therapy with 10 clients. Three different key a...

Clients' and therapists' stories about psychotherapy.

This article provides an overview of the emerging field of research on clients' stories about their experiences in psychotherapy. The theory of narrative identity suggests that individuals construct stories about their lives in order to provide the self with a sense of purpose and unity. Psychotherapy stories serve both psychological functions. Focusing on the theme of agency as a vehicle for o...