Maybe It's Not “Kick Me” After All: Transactional Analysis and Schizoid Personality Disorder

doi:10.1177/036215370003000109

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Maybe It's Not “Kick Me” After All: Transactional Analysis and Schizoid Personality Disorder

Published Jan 1, 2000 · Carla Haimowitz

Transactional Analysis Journal

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Abstract

Analyzing transactions works to help individuals identify and change decisions they are conscious of making, particularly decisions that are no longer functional for them. But can transactional analysis help people change unconscious decisions about modes of operating that are so subtle, so ego-syntonic, so familiar, that changing them seems inconceivable and threatening? This article suggests that personality disorders can be understood as distorted frames of reference and that transactional analysis—the analysis of transactions that take place between client and therapist, between clients (in group therapy), and/or within a client (in individual therapy)—is a useful approach for identifying and changing these distortions.

Study Snapshot

Transactional analysis can help individuals with schizoid personality disorder identify and change unconscious decisions, potentially improving their functioning.

PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)

Sample size24

MethodsObservational

OutcomesBody Mass Index projections

ResultsSocial networks mitigate obesity in older groups.

Maybe It's Not “Kick Me” After All: Transactional Analysis and Schizoid Personality Disorder

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