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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 11/16/02
Time: 6:19:35 AM
Remote Name: 205.188.209.40
Margaret, your response encourages me to ask you how you see PCT as similar to and different from Transactional Analysis (TA)theory and therapy, founded by Eric Berne, M.D. I know that time and space does not allow you a full response, but it seems to me, someone who has trained to become a TA therapist (I also am a speech-language pathologist), that the notion of recognizing viable options in thinking, feeling, and behaving at any given point in time, so much a focus of TA therapy, also is an aspect of PCT. I have seen that this awareness and then the application of this truth is empowering and highly motivating. Moreover, TA therapy exposes and dissects personal, family, societal, and cultural scripts to relieve individuals to live authentic, mindful lives instead of scripted ones. I think TA has a significant contribution to make to the process of changing from being someone with a stuttering problem to being someone without one. What do you think?
Ellen-Marie Silverman