Fabiola Santicchio PTSTA-P
Field of audience: P

Language: English
Level of audience: Advanced

Transactional Analysis is a psychological theory founded by Eric Berne, with the stated purpose of bringing psychoanalysis closer to the profane.
Transactional Analysis is configured as a theory of the personality of individuals and interpersonal relationships, but also as a theory of human communication.
In TA it is often forgotten that Eric Berne, before being the founder of TA theory, was a psychoanalyst who remained deeply influenced by psychodynamic theories and the notions of “unconscious”, reintroduced in TA model during the last years of his life.
The concept of “unconscious communication” in TA represents a notion that allows Transactional Analysis to reconnect to its epistemological psychoanalytic legacy, legitimizing itself as the theory of communication, conscious and unconscious, and consolidating its identity as a psychodynamic bio-psychosocial theory.
The concept of unconscious communication can be a valuable theoretical tool to analyze therapeutic relational processes, going far beyond appearances and collecting precious information that would remain hidden without concepts like this.
During the workshop various examples of unconscious communication will be provided, deepening the theoretical aspect in TA and inviting participants to train in this analysis, through the discussion of clinical examples.