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 [...]

A short and sweet video introducing basic TA concepts. Enjoy & send it to your friends to. Incoming search terms:video on transactional analysis and sales (3)

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 am always looking after TA related materials on the web and today I was happy to find a document related to Business Games. If you have any kind of connection with the business environment (and I am sure you have!) I invite you to read this eBook. TABLE OF CONTENTS GAME 1: MY EMPLOYEE, [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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