‘The OK Corral Revisited’ is my response to a key model of Transactional Analysis, ‘The OK Corral’ first set out by Eric Berne in the 1960’s.
Since my response is experiential, tracking my internal experiences in relationship, it’s also highly personal.
What emerges though is a transpersonal aspect, and a reassurance for those beginning in their TA journeys.
An account of a journey
The ‘OK Corral Revisited’ is an account of a journey. Firstly it’s an experiential journey; the meeting over and over of self and other as ‘internal experience’ witnessed by an internal ‘witness consciousness’.
The book is also a therapeutic journey; an account of personal growth starting from uncertainty, passing through some challenging places and, ultimately, a returning ‘home’ to a place of warmth and safety.
The map for this journey is The OK Corral, a model that sits at the heart of Transactional Analysis. The journey home is a meeting of this model, our valuable guide, on experiential terms.
Experiential and Transpersonal
As we revisit The OK Corral model from an experiential frame its richness and depth begin to point to our small part in the Universal Process, a transpersonal frame, in which we are assured and certainly ‘OK’.
Who is this written for?
This book is written to invite confidence and reassurance in those who are beginning their own journeys in Transactional Analysis.
It isn’t a ‘textbook’, nor is it a ‘self help’ guide. It is a personal knowing, which is simply a small amount of something real held as very precious by one person.