Being part of the transactional analysis community can provoke the challenge of living in groups and can provide the means of growth into viable, satisfying membership. The author considers how this cultural aspect of transactional analysis—its demands and its gifts—contributed significantly to reversing his own lifelong habit of withdrawal and cutoff from group life.
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