This article presents a transactional analytic model of therapeutic work with couples. The authors offer a perspective on the psychological structure of couples and their developmental dynamics and then discuss the mechanisms for change offered by therapeutic work with couples in a group setting. They refer to transactional analysis theory as it relates to neurobiological research linked to the study of memory systems and to narrative script in transactional analysis, thereby demonstrating the need for differing levels of intervention.
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