This article presents a lively debate in the form of four letters exchanged by Michele Novellino, a proponent of transactional psychoanalysis, which utilizes the analysis of transference, countertransference, and unconscious phenomena, and Claude Steiner, who takes the position that transactional analysis was developed as a radical departure from psychoanalysis and does not benefit from the use of psychoanalytic terminology.
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