by Giles Barrow TA: Education; Schools I'm OK - You're OK is arguably the most enduring touchstone of Transactional Analysis (TA). Founded by Eric Berne in the 1960s, popularised during the 1970s, many readers may recall a distant reference to TA in their professional...

by Giles Barrow TA: Education; Schools; Staff development This article presents, for the first time, some thoughts and ideas about the nature of developmental TA. I think that they are intriguing and I welcome other's views about them. BACKGROUND I have been a member...

by James R. Allen TA: Postmodern TA; Postmodernism; Philosophy In the right atmosphere, dough quietly begins to rise. Eventually, it becomes recognizable as bread. As a young child in my grandmother’s kitchen, I found this process magical. As a young adolescent, I...

by James R. Allen and Barbara Ann Allen TA: Children & adolescents; Treatment planning Abstract     The purpose of this article is to present an overall transactional analysis model of psychopathology in children and adolescents and a framework...

by Laurie Weiss This free 59-page E-booklet addresses anger, grief, depression, responsibility, and personal change.      "Even conscious, aware, growing people are often puzzled about what to do to solve specific problems in their lives. Although...

by Dr. Bernd Schmid, TSTA TA: Personality, Social roles Abstract      In this article the most important TA concepts will be described in such a way that they do not automatically convey the ideas and attitudes of professional psychotherapists or...

Could this be you? Chris gets through a lot of work, by doing everything very quickly. Chris moves fast, thinks fast, talks fast, and seems to do everything so much more quickly than most people. However, every so often Chris makes a mistake through rushing so much -...

[Note: this article begins with several Patient/Therapist dialog examples; the author discusses their implications in a section at the end of the article.] Pt: (Looking down and back up) I don’t know what’s the matter with me... Ther: (Thinks “I’m supposed to ask...