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Sills C & Wilson J (2015). The Critical Adult: A Critical Concept for Interesting Times. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.onlinevents.co.uk/ta2015-keynote-the-critical-adult-a-critical-concept-for-interesting-times-keith-tudor/. [Last Accessed 10/4/2015].
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Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic analysis of a specific text, a body of work, or an oral discourse. In philosophy, critique refers to a methodical practice of doubt, and criticism is viewed as essential to enquiry, making meaning of life, and to being human.
Yet, in the field of psychology, including transactional analysis, criticism and being critical is, more often than not, viewed negatively. In this keynote speech, Keith argues that critique, criticality and being critical is (also) an Adult activity, and uses the concept of the critical Adult to develop these ideas.
He proposes certain necessary and sufficient conditions for being critical, and the “interesting times” in which we live and work that require us to be active, engaged, and critical Adults in all our fields of application.
[divider]About Keith Tudor
Keith Tudor
Keith is an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, where he is also the Head of The Department of Psychotherapy and Counselling. He is a Certified Transactional Analyst and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a Provisional Member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, and has a small private practice in West Auckland. He is the series editor of Advancing Theory in Therapy (Routledge), the editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International, and the co-editor of Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author/editor of over 250 publications, including twelve books, the previous of which, The Turning Tide (LC Publications,2011), is concerned with pluralism and partnership in psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand.
He will be launching this latest book, Co-Creative Transactional Analysis: Papers, Responses, Dialogues and Developments, with his Co-author Graeme Summers in the UK at UKTA Conference 2015.
About the Book
Co-Creative Transactional Analysis: Papers, Responses, Dialogues and Developments - Keith Tudor & Graeme Summers
Co-creative transactional analysis is an approach to a particular branch of psychology which, as the phrase suggests, emphasises the “co-” (mutual, joint) aspect of professional relationships, whether therapeutic, educative and/or consultative – and, by implication, of personal relationships. The “co-” of co-creative acknowledges the transactional, inter-relational, mutual, joint, and co-operative, as well as partnership.
With its roots in field theory and social constructivism, and based on guiding principles which emphasise “we” psychology, shared responsibility, and present-centred development, co-creative transactional analysis offers a re-reading of transactional analysis – and, more broadly, of other approaches to psychology and psychotherapy – which emphasises health alongside illness and pathology; dialogue and discourse; the active engagement and participation of the therapist in the therapeutic endeavour; and the potential and possibilities of relationships and therapeutic relating.
Co-creative transactional analysis is very much part of the contemporary concern regarding the “relational turn” in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and counselling, and represents a “two-person psychology’ and, arguably, a “two-person-plus psychology”.
Developed by the authors over some fifteen years, the co-creative approach has found a resonance not only amongst psychotherapists, but also educationalists, consultants and coaches.
The book itself represents and reflects the co-creative approach in that it is based on a critical dialogue between the authors themselves about their collaborative and independent work, as well as between invited contributors and the authors.
It is anticipated that the book will further the constructivist approach to therapy and coaching whereby meaning constantly evolves through dialogue, discourse creates systems and the co-creation of new or novel experiences and narratives provide new relational possibilities or ways of being with each other.
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