1st Edition
Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy An Integrated Model
Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Model (ITAP) introduces a new approach of psychotherapy. Based on psychodynamic foundations, the ITAP integrates the most recent trends in short-term dynamic psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis. This book develops an innovative, clear and complete clinical model of ITAP, and introduces the reader, step-by-step, to the theoretical basis underlying the technique of this intervention.
The authors introduce the therapeutic procedure by bringing together the theory with brief clinical examples, thereby demonstrating the attitude of the intense therapist as well as which theoretical pathways to take to progress with the patient. In addition to the modulation of the technique based on the level of the patient’s suffering, there is also a systematic examination of which cases should be treated with ITAP, and in what way.
Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy is a therapy which can be easily used by all therapists, and this book will be of great interest to Transactional Analysis therapists and other therapists interested in Transactional Analysis and short-term dynamic psychotherapy.
Contents
PREFACE (Mark Widdowson)
Acknoledgements
Chapter 1 Brief and ‘Intense’ History of Brief Psychotherapy Models p. … -Scottà
Chapter 2 ITAP: A Psychotherapy Technique Open To Integration p.... Sambin
Chapter 3 ITAP: The Theoretical Model p… Sambin
Chapter 4 Intervention Technique p. … Sambin
Chapter 5 Modulation of the Intervention p. … Sambin
Chapter 6 The Evaluation of Anxiety Using ITAP p… Scottà
Chapter 7 The Alliance p. … Sambin
Chapter 8 Pressure p … Sambin
Chapter 9 Transference and Countertransference in the therapeutic relationship p. … Sambin (Facchin, Scottà).
Chapter 10 Our Idea of Relational Holding p… Scottà
Chapter 11 The triangles of the sky p… Scottà
Chapter 12 ITAP and Transactional Analysis...Scottà
Chapter 13 Neurobiological Evidence For ITAP Model... Messina
Chapter 14 ITAP in the Treatment of Common Mental Disorders... Benelli
APPENDIX
Biography
Marco Sambin is a Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Padua, a CTA-P and Director of CPD – Centre of Dynamic Psychology, School of Specialisation in Psychotherapy. Past Vice-President Research and Innovation ITAA.
Francesco Scottà is a psychologist, a psychotherapist and a CTA Trainee. He is a teacher and a collaborator at CPD – Centre of Dynamic Psychology, School of Specialisation in Psychotherapy. He works privately as a psychotherapist.
"In the sphere of current psychotherapeutic conception, open to an integrated vision, this text offers methodological solidity, geometric rigour and useful clinical references."
Dolores Munari Poda – Eric Berne Memorial Award 2009.
"I read Marco and Francesco's book with enthusiasm. A refreshing blast of novelty in the world of modern Transactional Analysis: a manual focused on themes of brief psychotherapy with reference to issues of diagnosis and research. It also constitutes an important alternative to Goulding's redecisional theory."
Michele Novellino - Eric Berne Memorial Award 2003.
"Among the main rules of Eric Berne’s San Francisco Seminars, since the 1950s, there was one that said: "Cure patients faster".
This was an idea that accompanied the founder of Transactional Analysis from the very beginning of his theoretical development until the end of his life. In his last article, published posthumous, he stated: "There’s only one paper to write which is called How To Cure Patients – that’s the only paper that’s really worth writing if you’re really going to do your job."
This phrase of Berne could legitimately had been the title of this book, which is clearly and firmly devoted to curing the patients as fast as possible, anchored in the pragmatic approach of TA and in its psychodynamic roots. It fully resounds of Eric Berne’s legacy: he would probably be proud of it, and I’m personally happy to hear the voice of the master echoing in this new, up-to-date book."
Marco Mazzetti - Eric Berne Memorial Award 2012 -
"Agile and intensive like the theoretical model it presents, in keeping with the effectiveness endeavours of video-informed psychotherapy. Sambin, Scottà, &… provide a new scientific approach to the anatomy of therapeutic interaction. With an eye to earth and one to the sky, classical and innovative."
Ferruccio Osimo (one of the leading figures in Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy)
