The following articles represent the essential contributions of Fanita to TA. The articles are structured according to certain issues. In each chapter the first article represents her concept the best. Further articles in the same chapter are additional material – for different reasons. Sometimes they illustrate the development of a concept during the years, sometimes they are import due to the cause they were published – i.e. as a part of a debate. All these articles are sorted out together with Fanita – and some of them are mentioned in the video-interview. Most of these articles are available as downloads. Furthermore we add some material which Fanita used in her workshops and which aren’t published. Last but not least we have to thank many people who supported this project. In particular we would like to mention Robin Fryer, Greame Summers, Charlotte Sills, Edie Beaujon, Emiliano Kamppeter, Erfan Moniri and Rafaela Echle beside many others who helped us in different ways to publish this project! Thank you all!
These videos are recorded at Fanita’s place in San Mateo in June 2012 and August 2013. The videos are not intended to be stand-alone explanations of the material. They are intended to be viewed after gaining familiarity with the content of the articles that can be downloaded from the Legacy Bibliography section of this website. The quality of the videos reflect the private atmosphere – therefore visual or audial impairments are genuine aspects of this project. Never the less we tried to achieve a certain level of quality that makes it easy to follow the talks. The major aim of these videos is to present Fanita’s ideas and concept in her own voice, with her own words and in her very own way to tell a story. Those who know Fanita from workshops or conferences will recognize some stuff embedded in a completed overview. And those who never met her and who are interested in her work will get a more personal impression beside her articles and books.
Chapter 0: Introduction to the legacy project / the end is the beginning
Chapter 1: Basic TA Concepts
- „How did you become a Transactional Analyst?“ TAJ Vol. 35. No 1 January 2005
- „What shall I do tommorrow?: Reconceptualizing Transactional Analysis“ aus dem Buch „TA after Eric Berne: teaching and parctices of three T.A.Schools“ Graham Barnes, Longman 1978
- „Strokes in the credit bank for David Kupfer“ TAJ Vol 1 No 3 July 1971
- „My time is more precious than your strokes: New perspectives on time structure“ TAJ Vol 22 No 1 January 1992
- „Potency as a female therapist“ TAJ Vol 8 No 4 October 1978
- „Shame and social control“ TAJ Vol 5 No 1 January 1975
- „Shame and social control revisited“ TAJ Vol 24 No 2 April 1994
Chapter 2: Existential Positions, and character-types 1 + 2
- „Rackets and Racketeering as the root of games“ in Roger N. Blakeney “Current issues in Transactional Analysis“ NY 1977
- „The fifth Position: I’m ok – you’re ok – for real“ published in Vol 11 of New Directions in Psychotherapy edited by Dr. Henry Grayson 1976
- „Lebenscoaching“, Fanita English und Joachim Karnath, iskopress 2009
- „Es ging doch gut was ging denn schief?“ Fanita English, Bertelsmann Verlag
Chapter 3: Fifth Position
- „The fifth Position: I’m ok – you’re ok – for real“ published in Vol 11 of New Directions in Psychotherapy edited by Dr. Henry Grayson 1976
Chapter 4: Contracts
- „The three-cornered Contract„, TAJ, Volume 5, Number 4, 1975
Chapter 5: Rackets and Racketeering
- „The Substitution Factor: Rackets and Real Feelings“ TAJ Vol 1 No 4 October 1971 – written for Eric Berne who died before published
- „Rackets and Racketeering as the root of games“ in Roger N. Blakeney “Current issues in Transactional Analysis“ NY 1977
- „Talk by Fanita English on receiving The Eric Berne memorial scientific award for the concept of rackets as substitute feelings“ TAJ Vol 9 No 2 April 1979
- „Two Racketeering Patterns: „I love you, so gimme!“ and „Darling, you owe me!“ TAJ, Volume 29, April 1999
Chapter 6: Script
- „Let’s not claim it’s script when it ain’t!“ TAJ Vol 7 No 2 April 1977
- „Wither scripts“ TAJ Vol 18 No 4 October 1988
- „How are you and how am I“ in Charlotte Sills „Egostates“ UK 2010?
- „It takes a lifetime to play out a script“
- „On the trail of american script patterns“ TAJ 14 No 1 January 1984
Chapter 7: Epi-Script
- „Episcript and the „Hot Potato“ Game“, TA Bulletin, October 1969
- „Scripts and Episcripts“ keynote speech for the ITAA conference in India, January 1997
- „Berne, Phobia, Episcripts, and Racketeering“ TAJ Vol 26 No 2 April 1996
- „The Lure of Fundamentalism“ TAJ Vol 26 No 1 January 1996
- „Religious Fundamentalism and International communism – Brothers under the skin?“ Keynote for World Council of Psychotherapy 2002
Chapter 8: Drives and Motivators
- „Unconsious Drives Reimagined“ TAJ Vol 38 No 3 july 2008
- „What motivates Resilience after Trauma?“ TAJ Vol 38 No 4 October 2008
- „How to connect our understanding of personality development and Berne’s concept of ego states with my concept of Motivators“ April 6, 2003
- „The sleepy/spunky mermaid“ undated article approximately 1978
Summary: Fanita in person
- „To be a Therapist?“ TAJ Vol 25 No 1 January 1995
- „Life Scripts: Definitions and Point of View“ Discussion at the EATA Conference 2010 in Prague, published in TAJ Vol 41 No 3 July 2011 (FE together with Richard G. Erskine, Maria Teresa Tosi, Marye O’Reilly-Knapp, Rosemary Napper and Jo Stuthridge)
- à 7-11 Prage Symposium
- „In conversation with Fanita English“ interview by Alastair Moodie in The Transactional Analyst Autumn 2011
