What Do You Say If You Don't Say “Unconscious”?: Dilemmas Created for Transactional Analysts by Berne's Shift Away from the Language of Unconscious Experience
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What Do You Say If You Don't Say “Unconscious”?: Dilemmas Created for Transactional Analysts by Berne's Shift Away from the Language of Unconscious Experience
The author contacted members of the original San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars asking for their recollections of and opinions about Eric Berne's shift from the language of the unconscious. Their comments are excerpted here. The author examines the consequences for transactional analysis theory of Berne's change in language, arguing for a reconceptualization of unconscious experience within transactional analysis.
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