It is very difficult to understand why people behave the way they do. Sometimes our own behaviour puzzles us. We dismiss our puzzling behaviour with “That`s the way I am, there’s nothing I can do about it”. But if we look closely within us we will find a logical explanation for most of the things [...]

I have found a very good TA video training on teachers.tv. In this programme behavioural change consultant John Seaman leads a group of headteachers through a workshop in the relationship theory: transactional analysis. The headteachers are taught how to gain more effective outcomes from meetings by identifying and neutralising the different behaviour patterns people can [...]

Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis and the author of Games People Play. Eric was born on May 10, 1910 as Eric Lennard Bernstein in Montreal, Canada. (He is unrelated to the conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein.) He was the son of [...]

For those of you who are willing to start a TA related site, with articles, resources, news, etc., we have good news. There are two TA related domains for sale. There is no fixed price but I suppose you can get the domains for a few $$$. Here is the list of the domains: – [...]

TA is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change. As a theory of personality, TA describes how people are structured psychologically. It uses what is perhaps its best known model, the ego-state (Parent-Adult-Child) model to do this. This same model helps understand how people function and express themselves [...]

Transactional analysis1, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy. Integrative because it has elements of psychoanalytic, Humanist and Cognitive approaches. It was developed by Canadian-born US psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s. 1. Transactional analysis. (2009, February 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. [...]

(Compiled by Fusun Akkoyun, Ph.D., CTA, TA 101 Instructor, in 2007) __________________________________________________________ A. CURE Gordon, E. (1980). Assessment of cure: A’ cure checklist’. TAJ. 10, 2, 107-114. ( It is proposed from the points of view both the therapist and the client.) Berne E. (1976). Minimal Basic Science Curriculum for Clinical Membership in the ITAA. [...]

Third in a series on TA, offering some of the metaphors I think can be useful in conceptualising and dealing with interactions. This third video takes a closer look at gimmicks and some different perspectives they can be viewed from — including gimmicks as faulty rules, faulty roles and faulty definitions — and then possible [...]

The aim of the International Journal for Transactional Analysis Research is to expand the scientific evidence base of transactional analysis. EATA hopes a solid transactional analysis research base will: help TA-practitioners develop and improve their work; open dialogues with other psychological orientations; enhance TA credibility in academic and to government bodies; facilitate national and international [...]

I just got the following message from Julie Hay: Dear EATA Member During the conference in Prague, we launched the EATA research journal – IJTAR – International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research. Online access if free to all so please go to www.ijtar.org and sign in. Please also publicise this link to your colleagues, especially [...]