(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. [...]

TA is not only post-Freudian but according to its founder’s wishes consciously extra-Freudian. That is to say that while it has its roots in psychoanalysis – since Berne was a psychoanalytic-trained psychiatrist – it was designed as a dissenting branch of psychoanalysis in that it put its emphasis on transactional, rather than “psycho-”, analysis. With [...]