the VOLUME 9: Issue 3: SUMMER 2019 TRANSACTIONAL ANALYST UNITED KINGDOM ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS’ QUARTERLY MAGAZINE CONTENTS News and views From the Editors, Ali Bird & Celia Simpson .................. 2 News items: congratulations CTAs, Diplomas, Welcome new members ................................................. 2 DSR Committee news by Bena Armitage ..................... 3 Obituary: Barbara Lalljee by Sue Brady and Celia Simpson .................................. 3 What has EATA done for us? by Beren Aldridge .......... 4 EBMA 2019: Ray Little .................................................. 6 Focus on: Research Data collection – don’t put the cart before the horse by James Sweeney.......................................................... 8 Ethics and training: data collection, case studies and essays by James Sweeney....................................... 11 Focus on Research: Letter to the editors ‘The mystery of question 13’, Little Quick Fix Series response by James Sweeney.......................................... 12 Reviewed by Celia Chambers, Listing of research articles published in page 16 the Transactional Analyst 2010-2019 ............................ 14 Research Committee Update......................................... 15 Book reviews introduced by Marion Umney ................ 16 Little Quick Fix: Research Question by Zina O’Leary reviewed by Celia Chambers............. 16 Little Quick Fix: Research Proposal by Zina O’Leary reviewed by Celia Chambers............. 16 Little Quick Fix: Know the Numbers by John MacInnes reviewed by Celia Chambers ......... 17 Improving services for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth by Tiffany Jones reviewed by Liza Heatley .............................................. 17 Diversity and social responsibility Culture and cross-cultural therapy by Elizabeth Bradshaw ................................................... 19 Student writing Applying the Discount Matrix to pregnancy loss by Carolyn Duffin ........................................................... 21 Using illustrative cards to work creatively by Claire Bowers............................................................. 26 New writing Asperger’s in (and outside) the therapy room – 11 by Dr Peter Flowerdew.................................................... 29 Columns Creative writing and therapy by Dee Longhurst .......... 34 Film scripts by Anoushka Beazley................................. 35 Reflections Poem: Writing as therapy by Alison Chippindale......... 36 Advertising..................................................................... 37 Contact pages................................................................. 49 ISSN 2046-2689 News and views NEWS & VIEWS ELLO AND WELCOME to this quarter’s Desert Island Discs: ‘Don’t put me in a box – I’m a magazine. This issue is focused on research with cultural mongrel.’ Harticles brought together by UKATA’s Research Anoushka Beazley’s ‘Film Scripts’ column continues to Committee. Particular thanks go to James Sweeney. delight with an amusing and astute coverage of The activities of the Research Committee over the past mainstream TV and Netflix programmes with a TA year and into the next are outlined on page 15 – you are perspective. While Dee Longhurst’s column, ‘Creative encouraged to get involved. James and the team have Writing & Therapy’, beautifully illustrates how creative been working hard to gain access for members to writing can allow us to enter the world of the client. psychotherapy-related research and other academic The next focus for the magazine will be ‘eco therapy.’ journals and have been increasing social media presence Hayley Marshall and Giles Barrow are bringing together with Twitter, Facebook, podcasts and so on. a wealth of articles on this area which, despite it being The articles in this issue are aimed at trainees and around for a good long while, is now getting the attention others involved in the process of research rather than on it deserves. The abundance of material they have been any research projects recently undertaken. One article, working on means that we will be running this over two focusing on ethics, looks at the difference in application issues. Two issues which will mark the beginning of our of ethical codes for therapy work with clients and those 10th anniversary year as the Transactional Analyst for undertaking research, or writing essays and case magazine! A great start to the next decade. studies. Another article cautions against the pitfalls of Thank you once again to all our contributors to this letting data gathering get in the way of your actual quarter’s issue. Enjoy. Ali Bird and Celia Simpson research strategy and design. [email protected] The ‘Letter to the editors’ (Vol 8:4) – The Mystery of [email protected] Question 13 – is responded to on page 12 by James Sweeney. AWARDS Celia Chambers reviews some ‘how to’ books on DIPLOMA research which Marion Umney, book reviews editor, Karen Macmillan wishes had been published before she took her research Denise Longhurst Masters degree. This Little Quick Fix series tackles the CTA basic but tricky areas of research – the research question; Joanna Groves the research proposal; the numbers – with a simple and Claire Daplyn accessible approach. Carol Remfrey Foote We also have more student writing in this magazine. Yinka Junaid Carolyn Duffin – at the end of her Foundation Year, with Catrina Topham RTE Physis Scotland – writes an important piece looking PTSTA at the painful experience of pregnancy loss through the Ales Zivkovic lens of the Discount Matrix, the five stages of grief and Sylva Jollife cultural discounting. Thank you Carolyn for sharing your TSTA (P) thinking on an area seriously under-addressed by the Rachel Curtis therapeutic community. Kerri Warner Claire Bowers – in her final year at RTE Red Kite Training – is creative and effective in using a family WELCOME NEW MEMBERS boardgame ‘Dixit’ to help understand the attachment Rebecca Elston patterns of her clients. (NB other boardgames are Amy Miles available!) Angela McGough Elizabeth Bradshaw a member of the effective Hilary Beach Diversity and Social Responsibility Committee considers Neo Holden-Anderson how the therapeutic relationship is central to the cross- Laura Williams cultural encounter. She cites an inspirational role model, Nina Manning poet, Imtiaz Dharker, who proclaimed on BBC Radio 4’s Maria de Ridder 2 THE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYST SUMMER 2019 News and views DSR COMMITTEE NEWS formation, I am extremely proud and privileged to have been elected THANK YOU and hello! In order to meet UKATA’s as the new Chair and have been objective to ensure inclusivity of its membership given the opportunity to continue Awithin the TA community, the Diversity and Social working with such a professional Responsibility Committee was formed in January 2015. and enthusiastic group of members. Karen Minikin was a driving force behind the I would also, as my first action as establishment of the committee and its founding Chair. Chair, like to express the Now, after over four years of her dedication, hard work appreciation and thanks to the DSR and professional leadership, sadly Karen has decided to Committee for all the hard work step down from her role as Chair. Thankfully she will and great progress they have made so Bena Armitage remain as a member of the committee and will continue far. I too will continue to put my efforts into maintaining to bring her innovative, strategic thinking and valuable the high standards that Karen has set for us and am expertise that will enable us to build and grow on the looking forward to continuing being solid foundation that she so tirelessly helped to create. part of a great team! As one of the DSR Committee founding members Bena Armitage, myself, and having been involved in the work since its Chair, Diversity and Social Responsibility Committee OBITUARY Barbara Lalljee 21 December 1939 – 6 July 2019 By Sue Brady By Celia Simpson N DECEMBER 2003 I met Barbara MET BARBARA at a CPD group – when I joined Jenny Thomas’s we were staying in the same hotel Itraining group. We completed our Iand she brought out a bottle of fizz training together, both successfully and nibbles! So she, Sue and I sat gaining CTA status in York, 2007. The down together to share some down following year we attended the TEW in time. I was newly a PTSTA looking for Ljubljana. Over the years we remained training opportunities, and Barbara friends, attending various conferences invited me to do my very first training and training days together. Two years weekend, which I taught on ago, we went to the Berlin conference together. She psychotherapy and spirituality. I was welcomed into was looking forward to this as she had not returned to her lovely house, and nurtured with her cooking and Berlin since leaving it as a small child. her company. The group was engaged with the When Jenny Thomas retired, and it looked as if material and we had some interesting discussions on there would be no transactional analysis training our own experiences of religion and how that has establishment in Wales, Barbara set up a training influenced our spirituality. Barbara also wanted to institute which was run from her home located in the participate, and gave me helpful feedback on the beautiful county of Ceredigion. She planned to retire weekend. this year. However, ill health prevented her from I loved being on her farm in Wales, particularly as training for the last