Keith Tudor’s research while affiliated with Auckland University of Technology and other places

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Publications (33)


Sharing Secrets and Tumbling Walls: Deconstructing Privacy and Seclusion in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
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February 2025

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Transactional Analysis Journal

Keith Tudor

Whakaora, Pae Ora: Health Principles and Psychotherapy
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December 2024

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Ata Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand

The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Act 2019 and the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 have had major implications for the delivery of health services in Aotearoa New Zealand, especially with regard to equity of provision and delivery and to engaging and working with Māori as tangata whenua. As part of the previous New Zealand government’s restructuring of the health service, the Pae Ora Act set out certain principles for the health sector which this article discusses and applies to psychotherapy, and, specifically, with reference to two ethical codes and the standards of ethics for psychotherapists working in Aotearoa New Zealand. Notwithstanding the fact that the current New Zealand Parliament, dominated by the coalition government elected in October 2023, has repealed that part of the Pae Ora Act that established a separate Māori Health Authority as a way of delivering better outcomes, its principles remain in place and are important for psychotherapists practicing as health practitioners in this country.

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The enigma of unintentional racial microaggressions: Implications for the profession of psychotherapy

December 2024

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Ata Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand

Unintentional racial and cultural microaggressions towards indigenous and minority peoples while injurious to recipients, are characteristically not recognised by the perpetrator and when challenged, are often not able to be met with curiosity or the capacity for reflection. The difference in racial and cultural realities exposed in these encounters can lead to breakdowns in recognition and polarising dynamics which perpetuate structural oppression. They also represent missed opportunities for greater understanding of the ways socially sanctioned norms, assumptions and beliefs reinforce the implicit positioning of self and other as racial and cultural objects. Through consideration of the societal, interpersonal and intrapsychic aspects of the first author’s experience through heuristic enquiry (supervised by the second author), we consider unintentional racial microaggressive encounters and challenges as the observable outcome of implicit racialisation into colonial society. This article presents some discussion and implications for the discipline or profession of psychotherapy.




Relationale Zugänge zur Transaktionsanalyse – Nicole Lenner und Thomas Wehrs im Gespräch mit Helena Hargaden, Charlotte Sills, Graeme Summers und Keith Tudor

September 2023

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ZTA Zeitschrift für Transaktionsanalyse

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Nicole Lenner

Dieser Text ist die bearbeitete und gekürzte Version einer aufgezeichneten Unterhaltung zwischen Helena Hargaden, Charlotte Sills, Graeme Summers und Keith Tudor, initiiert und moderiert von Nicole Lenner und Thomas Wehrs. Er befasst sich vor allem damit, wie und aus welchen Gründen heraus Hargaden und Sills sowie Summers und Tudor ihren jeweiligen Ansatz einer beziehungsorientierten Transaktionsanalyse entwickelt haben: die relationale TA, die durch Theorien des Unbewussten und der Kindesentwicklung informiert ist und Verbindungen mit Neurowissenschaft, Metapher, Poesie und Kunst herstellt, und die kokreative TA, die durch Feldtheorie, Konstruktivismus und eine positive Psychologie der Gesundheit informiert ist.



Radical Enactivism: A Guide for the Perplexed

March 2023

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In the last 20 years, cognitive science has been revolutionized by enactive cognition. However, claims by enactivists that enactive cognition reforms much of our thinking about the nature of minds, and our relationships with nature and each other, have not always been easy to follow and hence a certain perplexity which has been further confounded by arguments between various enactivists. This article offers some clarification of some of the central claims of enactivism by drawing on past figures in philosophy and psychology, borrowing and extending already popularized metaphors, elucidating some key concepts, and explicating one of the central arguments within enactivism. Combining relevant inferences and intuitions from the past with recent ones from radical enactivism facilitates the emergence of a more responsible and responsive understanding of human nature: one that allows us to attune to each other and to nature more fully.


Supporting Critical Self-enquiry: Doing Heuristic Research

January 2023

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Requiring disciplined and critical self-reflection and engagement in a process of discovery—of self and others—heuristic research is a method of psychological research close to the practice of therapy. Drawing on the pioneering work of Moustakas (Heuristic research: Design, methodology and applications. Sage, 1990) as well as other heuristic researchers, notably Sela-Smith (Journal of Humanistic Psychology 42:53–88, 2002), the author of chapter 4 summarises key concepts of the heuristic method and methodology with illustrations from the literature, his own heuristic research, and some research students. This chapter discusses key concepts of heurism which acknowledge its methodology and philosophical roots, and takes the reader through the various stages or processes of heuristic research.


Ecotherapy Practice: Perceived Obstacles and Solutions

January 2023

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Transactional Analysis Journal

This article discusses ecotherapy practice using literature, practice, and activity outside as well as inside transactional analysis (TA). Drawing on a survey of mental health professionals regarding their use of nature in therapy sessions, and the first author’s own interpretive review of the literature, the article discusses five identified obstacles to ecotherapy and offers some solutions to those. The authors contextualize their position and experiences (as an ecotherapist and activist and as an activist scholar, respectively) and in relation to indigenous traditions and struggles in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The article aims to encourage and support transactional analysts to integrate the environment and nature into their practice and, more fundamentally, to understand their practice in the context of the environment.


Citations (11)


... You probably won't be surprised about-and won't want to read-a recent chapter of mine which takes a similar, though more theoretical perspective about working with settlers about their/our relationship with being a settler (Tudor, 2025a). Of course, as a psychotherapist, I am interested in the unconscious as well as the conscious, and, as you say, 'emotional and visceral reactions', but these cut both ways (McCann & Tudor, 2024); I want to help people understand, for instance, the origins of their internalised racism, and to think about this in relation to the social unconscious (McCann & Tudor, 2022). Also, a similar fact-check on your comments on Tommy Robinson reveals that he has been convicted of assault twice (for one of which offences he served a 12-month prison term)-and has also been convicted of using threatening, abusive, or insulting behaviour. ...

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Competing ideologies in and about psychotherapy: An exchange of views
The enigma of unintentional racial microaggressions: Implications for the profession of psychotherapy

Ata Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand

... Specifically, starting from the work of Bateson (1972), enactive approaches proposed that mind and nature have to be considered as a "necessary unity" (Drury & Tudor, 2024). Enactive theories emphasize how much of what we call "perception" is inherent and immediately tied to cognition to such an extent that it is impossible to separate them; they are "fundamentally inseparable in lived cognition" (E. ...

Radical Enactivism: A Guide for the Perplexed

... It is therefore important that their significance is not lost in the noise relating to the removal of the Māori Health Authority and related problems caused by a government that has a focus on cutting public expenditure and which speaks of equality rather than equity. This article is the latest in a series of publications on psychotherapy in relation to the law in Aotearoa New Zealand, i.e., Tudor (2011aTudor ( , 2017Tudor ( /2020Tudor ( , 2021, Tudor and Gledhill (2022), and Shaw and Tudor (2023). ...

Notes on notes: Note-taking and record-keeping in psychotherapy

Ata Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand

... These encompass the validation of Indigenous rights, including access to te reo, ancestral lands and culturally significant resources conducive to hauora, including the fundamental role of whānau in health service delivery. 12,16,17,32,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] Political advocacy processes, such as those involving the Waitangi Tribunal, Māori health professional groups, health professional colleges with proactive commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori providers, and iwi feature prominently in the literature, diligently monitoring the Crown's obligations to ensure access to quality healthcare for Māori. ...

Effective and respectful interaction with Māori: How the regulators of health professionals are responding to the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Act 2019
  • Citing Article
  • February 2022

The New Zealand medical journal

... (Box-Steffensmeier et al., 2022) This concept envisions leveraging advanced methodologies and interdisciplinary collaborations to deepen our understanding of how heuristics influence creative processes among academic professionals. (Tudor, 2022) Here are the key components and potential advancements in this field: ...

Supporting Critical Self-enquiry: Doing Heuristic Research
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  • January 2023

... In the context of mainstream education, Partington et al. (2024) explored the challenges faced by deaf students concerning their sense of belonging, identity, and the development of social and emotional skills. This study employed a literature review alongside insights from the authors' professional experience in special education for students with hearing impairments. ...

Deaf Students’ Perception of Wellbeing and Social and Emotional Skill Development within School: A Critical Examination of the Literature
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  • June 2022

International Journal of Disability Development and Education

... In his article, Feltham makes no reference to the extensive literature on critical whiteness (e.g., Giroux [1997], Green [2003], (Naughton & Tudor [2006], Tudor et al. [2022]). This is based on the idea of being culturally intentional (Shweder, 1990), that is, that everyone has a culture, that white is not neutral and the other 'cultural' and, therefore, demonised or exoticised; and that there is a critical approach to whiteness (Applebaum, 2016;Giroux, 1997) that acknowledges the social construction of whiteness against certain polarities, and that interrogates that particular construction as well as the privileges that go with it. ...

Critical Whiteness: A Transactional Analysis of a Systemic Oppression
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  • June 2022

Transactional Analysis Journal

... You probably won't be surprised about-and won't want to read-a recent chapter of mine which takes a similar, though more theoretical perspective about working with settlers about their/our relationship with being a settler (Tudor, 2025a). Of course, as a psychotherapist, I am interested in the unconscious as well as the conscious, and, as you say, 'emotional and visceral reactions', but these cut both ways (McCann & Tudor, 2024); I want to help people understand, for instance, the origins of their internalised racism, and to think about this in relation to the social unconscious (McCann & Tudor, 2022). Also, a similar fact-check on your comments on Tommy Robinson reveals that he has been convicted of assault twice (for one of which offences he served a 12-month prison term)-and has also been convicted of using threatening, abusive, or insulting behaviour. ...

Unintentional racial microaggressions and the social unconscious
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  • May 2022

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

... The recent republication of Burrow's main papers in an edited collection (Pertegato & Pertegato, 2013) and a new study by Drury and Tudor (2022) aim to revive interest in his work. focus on Burrow's work in the period after 1916 to demonstrate his theory of group analysis. ...

Trigant Burrow and the social world

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

... Yet accreditation standards have remained unchanged for years, potentially creating a gap (Akdemir et al., 2021). A recent study in New Zealand also drew attention to concerns related to overlap with similar requirements by the tertiary education sector, a lack of educational expertise on panels and continued stipulation of clinical hours (input-driven standards) despite a lack of evidence that it corresponds to competence (Shaw and Tudor, 2021). It is only through in-depth understanding of the enactment of accreditation policies by health professions education providers that we can truly come to understand how accreditation currently supports the development of graduates to meet current and emerging needs of the health system and what changes may be necessary. ...

Health(y) education: A critical analysis of the role of public health regulation in and on tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Citing Article
  • February 2021

Policy Futures in Education