Patients with personality disorders often maintain an internal dialogue in which they relay undermining and destructive messages that lead to their widespread dysfunctioning.
These negative messages originate from the superego where past experiences in relations with important others are stored through identification and introjection.
Transactional Analysis provides a means of mapping the superego and its messages as well as a therapeutic method of replacing the undermining dialogue by a permissive dialogue. A positive working alliance in which the therapist offers holding and a constructive example is of the utmost importance.
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
