Redecision therapy needs to be considered both as a brief therapy and as a powerful postmodern narrative therapy. Conceptualizing it in this manner, we are in a better position to appreciate its revolutionary theoretical and therapeutic significance and to reenvision many of the basic concepts of transactional analysis.
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