Eric Berne and Effective Method of Group Therapy," which was presented by invitation at the 1957 Western Regional Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles. With the publication of this paper in the 1958 issue of the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Berne's new method of diagnosis and treatment, transactional analysis, became a permanent part of the psychotherapeutic literature. In addition to restating his concepts of ego states and structural analysis, the 1958 paper added the important new features of transactional analysis proper (i.e. the analysis of transactions), games, and scripts. His seminar group from the 1950s developed the term
Methodology (journal) Methodology (journal) Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering social and behavioral science research methodology. It was established in 2005 from the merger of two other journals: Metodologia de las Ciencias del Comportamiento and Methods of Psychological Research-Online. It is published by Hogrefe Publishing on behalf of the European Association of Methodology, of which it is the official journal. The editors-in-chief are Jost Reinecke (University of Bielefeld) and José-Luis Padilla (University of Granada). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.143.