Letters to the Coeditors

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Hi Bill, I had been looking forward to the Transactional Analysis Journal on Schiffian reparenting for quite some time and have now read the various contributions to it. I’m impressed. It is valuable, so many years after the Schiff debacle, to look back on that unfortunate period in TA’s development. I think, though I share your shock, it is powerful that you put Schiff in a historical perspective in your article. It is too easy to make her a scapegoat. An ongoing and thorough ethical review of our work is the best we can do. I like what Laurie Weiss (1994) wrote in her ethical evaluation of reparenting from 1994: