This article explores the author's struggle to expand his transactional analysis-based psychotherapeutic approach to include unconscious processes. In his earlier work, a primary focus on content (scripts, games, and injunctions) colluded with his clients' resistance in such a way that unconscious phenomena were avoided. Presented autobiographically, the author describes ways he began to understand and experience unconscious processes as therapist, client, and analysand.
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