A useful way of understanding human personality as Ego States, or systems of thinking, feeling, and acting that exist within each of us. The last sentence was cut off, and should be “The more I learn about myself and how I operate with three ego states, the better am I able to avoid the kinds [...]

Transactional Analysis 101- Official Introductory Course Buckfast, Devon (nr Exeter) 26 and 27 July 2011 – Buckfast Conference Centre (Near Exeter) £175 plus VAT per person Transactional Analysis (TA) can be applied by anyone, in a variety of situations. It has an underlying ethos of positive regard for self and others, and a belief that [...]

TA identifies twelve key injunctions which people commonly build into their scripts. These are injunctions in the sense of being powerful “I can’t/mustn’t …” messages that embed into a child’s belief and life-script: Don’t be (don’t exist), Don’t be who you are, Don’t be a child, Don’t grow up, Don’t make it in your life, [...]

Redefining means the distortion of reality when we deliberately (but unconsciously) distort things to match our preferred way of seeing the world. Thus a person whose script involves “struggling alone against a cold hard world” may redefine others’ kindness, concluding that others are trying to get something by manipulation. Discounting means to take something as [...]

Communication failures are typically caused by a ‘crossed transaction’ where partners address ego states other than that their partner is in. Consider the above examples jumbled up a bit. Example 1a: A:  “Have you been able to write that report?” (Adult to Adult) B:  “Will you stop hassling me? I’ll do it eventually!” (Child to [...]

Transactions are the flow of communication, and more specifically the unspoken psychological flow of communication that runs in parallel. Transactions occur simultaneously at both explicit and psychological levels. Example: sweet caring voice with sarcastic intent. To read the real communication requires both surface and non-verbal reading. Strokes are the recognition, attention or responsiveness that one [...]

To talk about the ego structure and not to mention the innovation of the Egogram by Jack Dusay in the early 1970s would be a disservice to Transactional Analysis. An egogram is simply defined as: a bar graph showing the relationship of the parts of the personality to each other and the amount of psychological [...]

“Daca vrei ca ceilalti sa te asculte, vorbeste-le pe limba lor” Dr. Taibi Kahler Pentru descoperirea PCM (1971) dr. Kahler a primit in 1977 prestigiosul premiu stiintific “Eric Berne” si a fost onorat de specialistii clinicieni din cincizecisidoua de tari, modelul sau de comunicare fiind considerat “cea mai semnificativa descoperire stiintifica din domeniul psihologiei”. In [...]

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When? Timisoara, 11, 12, 13 December 2009 Trainer: Lynda Tongue, PTSTA (O) What is it about? It is said that we spend a third of our lives at work – which is a long time to feel miserable, powerless and out of step with others. In his book “Structures and Dynamics of Organisations and Groups” [...]