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Among the issues most interesting to me are the ones of attachment/bonding and trauma, maybe because in my opinion, they touch the deepest levels of human existence.

I want to present some examples of working with these issues in my therapeutic practice. I will attempt to coin TA explanations based on existing TA-theory and TA-literature, expanded by including other, well researched non-TA-theories and models (like Nijenhuis, Erickson, etc.). I will ask the participants to explore on them in small groups and share their thoughts in a discussion.

I hereby wish to celebrate the rich heritage we can draw from and ever expand on, to define, how we as Transactional Analysts, view the world-environment, including the others as a collective and the others as individuals, as well as ourselves and our place in this environment, next to our human relating and according needs as well as also on processes, for healing from deep wounds, that were inflicted by others and that keep influencing the lives and life-creation of the wounded.

I view human beings, who suffer from traumatization by others, as real victims according to Steiner, and I believe in ways, to help them be on the way of becoming more wholesome or healing.