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Abstract
This article offers a historical and critical review of the transactional analysis concepts of permission, protection, and potency (the three Ps). Taking account of permissions that are given and taken, verbal and nonverbal, direct and indirect, the author extends the classification of two to four types or groups of permissions. The three Ps are reconsidered not only as qualities and skills of the transactional analyst but also, and rather, as principles that reflect a two-person, relational psychology and psychotherapy.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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Keith Tudor
Keith Tudor, PhD, CQSW, Dip. Psychotherapy, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), is professor of psychotherapy and head of the Department of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has a small private practice in West Auckland as a health care provider and transactional analyst. Keith can be reached at Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, Aotearoa New Zealand; email: [email protected].