This article expresses appreciation to those responsible for the 2007 Eric Berne Memorial Award to Helena Hargaden and Charlotte Sills and then goes on to review relational psychotherapy in the context of the wider field, including some of the principles and philosophy of the approach. The features of the original theory are summarized in order to locate the work within the rapidly developing field of relational transactional analysis.
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