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Transactional Analysis (TA) refers to a wide-ranging set of theories about the human personality. It provides an unambiguous and logical framework within which we can understand and analyze ourselves—our motives, our behavior, and our interactions with others. The principles of TA can be applied universally—at home, in the workplace, at clubs and restaurants, at sporting events, in social occasions, and so on. TA was originally developed by the American psychoanalyst Dr Eric Berne in the 1950s. After his untimely death in 1970, the existing TA theory was substantially enlarged and added to by a host of other illustrious contributors.
How I Think … and How I can Think Better
How I Think … and How I can Think Better
For everyone… has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolours the light of nature; owing either to his own proper and peculiar nature, or to … the authority of those whom he esteems and admires….
—Francis Bacon, Novum Organon
The Internal and Functional Ego States
Every person carries a Parent (P), an Adult (A), and a Child (C) inside him. We shall refer to them as Internal Parent, Internal Adult, and Internal Child.
Our Internal Parent Ego State contains “recordings” of our parents' behavior (including parental figures such as uncle, aunt, grandfather, principal, and favorite teacher) which we observed when we were small and which ...