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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]