Introducing a New Coeditor and Editorial Board Members

Moniek Thunnissen, MD, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) who worked as a psychiatrist for many years at Psychotherapeutic Centre De Viersprong in the Netherlands, where TA was the model of psychotherapy used in the short-term inpatient clinic. While there, she did research into the cost effectiveness of the program, which resulted in her PhD thesis on the long-term effects of that TAbased short-term inpatient therapy and the comparison of two different formats of aftercare. Later Moniek became director of training of psychiatrists at a mental hospital in Bergen op Zoom and then worked in private practice doing therapy, supervision, training, and consultation. From 2007-2009, she was ITAA Vice President Research & Innovation and has also authored/coauthored numerous books and articles. She now wants to direct her energy toward developing the research field in TA, and as part of that she will be joining the TAJ coeditorial team to work specifically on research articles. Her dream is that TA will no longer seen as an “old-fashioned method” or “not evidence based” but that it is taken seriously in the wider field of mental health care.