Learning and Hating in Groups

Abstract

Being part of the transactional analysis community can provoke the challenge of living in groups and can provide the means of growth into viable, satisfying membership. The author considers how this cultural aspect of transactional analysis—its demands and its gifts—contributed significantly to reversing his own lifelong habit of withdrawal and cutoff from group life.

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N. Michel Landaiche

N. Michel Landaiche, III, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and training supervisor for the student counseling center at Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty member teaching Bowen family systems theory for the Western Pennsylvania Family Center. He can be contacted at 5018 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, U.S.A., or by e-mail at [email protected]. The author would like to thank his colleagues Diana Deaconu, Amalia Gabor, and Marina Vasile, whose willingness to risk in groups proved essential to his own growth in this area. He also extends warm appreciation to Ann Heathcote for sharing her research into the less-well-known works of Eric Berne and expresses gratitude to the TAJ editorial board, without whose exacting feedback this article would not have found its proper voice.