
Transactional analysis (TA to its adherents), is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy. It is described as integrative because it has elements of psychoanalytic, humanist and cognitive approaches. TA was first developed by Canadian-born US psychiatrist Eric Berne, starting in the late 1950s. ==Outline== According to...
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(from the article `humanistic psychology`) ...humanistic approach. It has emphasized a positive view of human beings and their potential to achieve real joy. Another influential therapy of the ...
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A psychoanalytic therapy wherein each social transaction is analyzed to determine the involved ego state (whether parent-like, child-like, or adult-like) as a basis for understanding behaviour. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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a theory of personality structure and a psychotherapeutic method by which the human personality is viewed as consisting of three ego states: the Parent, the Adult, and the Child, coherent systems of thought and feeling that have corresponding patterns of behavior. The word transactional in this term refers to the communication ...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a psychotherapy system, used in both individual and group treatment, involving a systematic understanding of the qualities of interpersonal interactions in the treatment sessions; includes four components: 1) structural analysis of intrapsychic phenomena; 2) transactional analysis proper, determination of the currently do...
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