Conceptualizing Ego States in Transactional Analysis

Within this book, Grégoire reviews and extends the founding concepts ego states in Transactional Analysis, starting with Eric Berne's foundational thinking about ego states, and then examining and integrating the evolution of subsequent models and thinking.

José Grégoire is a psychotherapist, an EATA Certified Clinical Transactional Analyst and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Besides his work as a therapist, teacher, supervisor in TA and translator of the French TA review Actualités en Analyse Transactionnelle, he has worked in an interdisciplinary therapeutic team for therapy of persons wanting to cure addictions.

Foreword 1. Three perspectives on ego states 2. Ego states as personality systems 3. What is the purpose of each system? 4. Growth and personal development 5. The Child: The system that experiences life 6. The Parent: The system that internalizes 7. The Adult: The system that integrates reality 8. From disjunction to integration 9. Emotions 10. The sense of Self 11. Integration and relationships 12. Co-creativity and Relationships 13. Communication within the relationship 14. The practitioner and the interaction perspective Conclusion Afterword: Ego states in transactional analysis