Since Berne's seminal work, a number of clinicians have elaborated different types of therapy within transactional analysis. Most of us are now familiar with reparenting (Schiffet al., 1975), self-reparenting (James, 1977), egogram therapy (Dusay, 1972), integrative therapy (Erskine, 1991), and redecision therapy (Goulding & Goulding, 1976). All of these therapeutic approaches are based on a modernist belief in a consensual reality. It now seems time to consider another type of therapy, constructionist transactional analysis, and to elaborate how a postmodern constructionist sensitivity can expand current transactional analysis ideas, especially script work.
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