Fanita English

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Fanita English (born October 22, 1916 in Galați , Romania ) is an American psychoanalyst , group analyst , psychotherapist and author of writings on transactional analysis . She put Eric Berne's four basic attitudes in a developmental psychological context and added the fifth variant, "I'm ok - you're ok - realistic". She still teaches - as a group therapist - throughout Europe and North America .

life and work

Fanita English spent her childhood and youth in Istanbul. She studied psychology a. a. with Jean Piaget and in Paris. The daughter of Jewish parents fled to the USA via several stops, where she earned an MA in Social Work. She completed training in psychoanalysis , gestalt therapy (with Fritz Perls ) and transaction analysis (with Eric Berne and David Kupfer). She founded the Eastern Institute for TA and Gestalt .

In contrast to Sigmund Freud , English postulates three basic instincts - survival instinct, instinct to create, and instinct for rest. These are in a homeostatic equilibrium (cf. Humberto Maturana ), just like the organs in an organism interact. Fanita English combines in-depth analytical procedures with behavioral and experience-oriented concepts. She differentiates between a euphoric narcissistic ok feeling and a realistic worldview that can only develop after overcoming the Oedipus complex. She has also developed new concepts for the triangular contract and for the phase-specific subsystems in the child-ego state.

Her daughter Deirdre English works as a journalist. Fanita English lives in San Mateo , California .

Honor

  • 1978 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award for Rackets and Real Feelings: The Substitution Factor
  • 1997 Eric Berne Memorial Award in Transactional Analysis for Hot Potato Transmission and Episcript

Selected publications

  • Barter of Feelings - Transaction Analysis with Fanita English (video box. 45 min.) Erlangen: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1987
  • Transactional Analysis - Feelings and Substitutes in Relationships . Hamburg 1991, 3rd revised new edition of the 1976 book “Transactional Analysis and Script Analysis: Essays u. Lectures by Fanita English “Hilarion Petzold & M. Paula [Hrsg.] - Dt. Study ed. Hamburg: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Altmann, 1976 from the original "Selected Articles" (1976)
  • What will i do tomorrow Berlin: Institute for Communication Therapy , 1980. ISBN 3-9800439-0-8 English original: (1977) “What shall I do tomorrow” in Barnes G. (ed.) (1977), pp. 287–347
  • It went well - what went wrong? Relationships in partnership, family and work . Munich: Christian Kaiser Verlag 1982/1992 (now at Bertelsmann: 6th edition)
  • English, Fanita & Wonneberger Klaus-Dieter: When despair turns into violence ... acts of violence and their hidden causes . Paderborn: Junfermann Verlag 1992.
  • English, Fanita & Pischetsrieder Gerd: I - job, life, relationships . Hamburg: Pischetsrieder Consulting 1996.

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personal data
SURNAME English, Fanita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Galați