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Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Approach

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This book came up during a search for someone who apparently reviewed it, a person to whom someone I know was referred by genuine licensed medical professionals. It turned out that the person did not have any license, and was engaged in highly controversial "therapies," including "body-centered" approaches, where vulnerable people (obviously not in their usual state to begin with) were coerced to have physical contact with the "therapist." People with no knowledge of psychiatry, psychology, or its very compromised history, or how it is/has been used for social control and the shaping of personality are, very sadly, sent into such experiences when they are ill and need help.

It is this sort of experience that has given rise to many organizations worldwide, such as the False Memory Syndrome Foundations in the U.S. and Britain, and to many books s/a Dineen's Manufacturing Victims, and to Peter Breggin's work, and in fact, the whole "right-left coalition movement" of Anti-Psychiatry. Clients are not in a state where they can reasonably decide to engage in the often highly suspect practices offered.

At any rate, this came up while doing a search for someone engaged in practices known to be confusing and frightening to "clients," and so books such as this should be read very critically, deconstructively, "against the grain," to see how the clients really do feel about what is being done to them (not just the self-reports of the "therapists.") ALWAYS--- make sure people involved have licenses (most states do not require anyone calling themselves "therapists" to have them), make sure it's current, otherwise you have no recourse legally if the person coerces you into damaging situations, not to mention deadly ones (pushing vulnerable people over the edge or insisting on drug use when the drugs have known side effects, s/a suicidality).

This is not information most will know until it is too late. Please research the Anti-Psychiatry movement in conjunction with using psychotherapy. The underpinnings of psychotherapy (how such people view life, the human subject---who we are, why we're here, how we think and feel, etc.--- may be very counter to your own religious upbringing or upbringing philosophically. This will be an issue, although the "therapists" are trained to believe they are unbiased (they actually believe this).

When one is sick, vulnerable, traumatized, etc,--- is the exact wrong time to learn about therapy, the history of it, the deep-seated alliance with various "Political" parties and forms, and so on.

Educate yourself now, not when a "health care professional" (who may well not be liscence and/or trained in a way you'd never ever want to be treated, simply forces themselves on you (s/a in a health care setting).