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WHY TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS WORKS: A THEORY OF THERAPEUTIC CHANGE IN SOCIAL-COGNITIVE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS PSYCHOTHERAPY Authors Laura Bastianelli is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She lives and works in Rome, in private practice and as a lecturer at the Salesian University in the Upper School for Specialization in Clinical Psychology and a trainer in the Institute of Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists (IFREP). She is member of Lab for Research on Self and Identity (LaRSI) of IRPIR and she’s has been the chair of the transactional analysis Theory Development and Research Committee of the European Association for Transactional Analysis. She can be reached at Via Ermogene, 52, 00124 Rome, Italy. Email: l.bastianelli@tiscali.it Maria Teresa Tosi is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She lives in Rome, Italy, where she works in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor. She is also a lecturer at the Salesian University in the Upper School for Specialization in Clinical Psychology and a trainer in the Institute of Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists (IFREP). She is member of Lab for Research on Self and Identity (LaRSI) of IRPIR. She can be reached at Via Anapo 29, 00199 Rome, Italy; e-mail: mt.tosi@fastwebnet.it. Rosanna Giacometto is a psychologist, psychotherapist and professional counsellor, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She lives in Rome where she works in private practice as psychotherapist. She is also a lecturer at the Pontifical Salesian University in the Upper School of Specialisation in Clinical Psychology (SSSPC-UPS) and a trainer at the Master in socio- educational counselling in the Institute of Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists (IFREP). She is member of Lab for Research on Self and Identity (LaRSI) of IRPIR. She is member of EATA, IRPIR (TA Italian Association affiliated to EATA) and ITAA. She can be reached at Via Riccardo Grazioli Lante 15/a, 00193 Rome, Italy; email: rgiacometto@gmail.com. Cinzia Messana is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and a psychologist, psychotherapist, and professor of personality psychology at the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome. She is also trainer and director of the Pontifical Salesian University’s Upper School for Specialization in Clinical Psychology and a trainer at both the IFREP’s Upper School for Clinical Psychology and at the School of Specialization in Interpersonal and Group Psychotherapy (SSPIG) in Palermo. In addition, Cinzia is a member of the Laboratory for Research on Self and Identity (LaRSI) of IRPIR. She can be reached at Via Bagnone, 59, 00139 Rome, Italy; email: messana@unisal.it Davide Ceridono is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and CTA Trainer (psychotherapy). He lives and works in Rome, in private practice and as a lecturer at the Salesian University in the Upper School for Specialization in Clinical Psychology and a trainer in the Institute of Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists (IFREP) and in the Specialization School in Transactional Psychotherapy (SSPT) in Latina. He is the director of Lab for Research on Self and Identity (LaRSI) of IRPIR. He can be reached at Via F. Tozzi, 40, 00137 Rome, Italy; email: ceridavid@katamail.com Disclosure Statement The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. WHY TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS WORKS: REASONS FOR A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF CHANGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY Key words: Social-cognitive transactional analysis, memory reconsolidation, ego states, schema, clinical research. Abstract The article presents a possible explanation for the efficacy of Transactional Analysis (TA) oriented psychotherapy, throughout the current dialogue between TA methodology and the reconsolidation process, discovered by neuroscientists at the end of last century. This hypothesis can enrich the debate between psychotherapy models about the issue of the common yet specific factor of change, promoting the integration of psychotherapies. Furthermore, the shift in the definition of ego states according to the theory of schema operated by social-cognitive transactional analysis is offered as a solid theoretical base to develop clinical research lines capable to integrate the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, outcome and process studies, and verify the reconsolidation as specific ingredient of change hypothesis, for the benefit of clinicians, clients and trainees. Introduction We have come a long way since Eysenck in 1952 published a provocative article where he claimed that psychotherapy wasn’t more effective than the simple passage of time: based on data that he collected, psychotherapy wasn’t more effective than spontaneous remission without any treatment. Although the methodology of that article has been strongly criticized (Bergin, 1971), it had the merit of stimulating the debate and the empirical research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy, instead of just settle for subjective interpretations of therapists and/or clients. From then, studies and publications have been increasing a lot and in many quarters the effectiveness of psychotherapy, or rather the effectiveness of various psychotherapies, was confirmed and accepted. (see, e.g., Bergin, 1971; Lambert, 2013; Norcross, VandenBoss & Freedheim, 2016a).
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