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Abstract
The early Greeks conceptualized physis as the generalized creative “force of Nature, which eternally strives to make things grow and to make growing things more perfect” (Berne, 1968, p. 89). This article discusses Berne's unique and neglected contribution to our understanding of this concept as well as its further development in transactional analysis by Clarkson. Physis is also contrasted with the two other major drives in human motivation–eros and thanatos–and some implications for transactional analysis psychotherapy are considered.
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Petrūska Clarkson
Petrūska Clarkson, M.A., Ph.D., is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and practicing psychotherapist, a certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (Clinical), and Principal Clinical Psychologist Director of the metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute in London. She has served on the ITAA Board of Trustees, is Chairperson of the Gestalt Training Institute of Great Britain, and Chair for the British Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy, which is affiliated with the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) International.