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Abstract
This article discusses the therapeutic management of issues related to patients' previous psychotherapies. Therapy has a powerful impact on a person's life and is structured (setting, specific techniques, etc.) deliberately for this purpose. However, this impact is not always useful and can, in fact, have a negative effect by reinforcing or promoting limiting script decisions. Using clinical examples, the author describes interventions and some of the technical and deontological implications of prior psychotherapy.
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Marco Mazzetti
Marco Mazzetti, M.D., is a psychiatrist, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), a member of EATA and the ITAA, and a university lecturer. He carries out his clinical, training, and research activities at the Centro di Psicologia e Analisi Transazionale in Milan, Italy. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. This article is an updated version of “Le seconde analisi” [The second analyses] published in 2007 in Rivista Italiana di Analisi Transazionale e Metodologie Psicoterapeutiche, XXVII, 16(53), pp. 45–l58. The author wishes to thank Robin Fryer for her clever, careful, and brilliant editing of this article, which improved its quality enormously.