Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis is a user friendly therapy that includes an understanding of personality based on an ego-state model. This links the structures of personality to behaviour and to the re-playing of childhood strategies in adult life.

This approach can be used to understand personal and business relationships and may be used in psychotherapy, counselling, communications training as well as management training and organisational analysis. Redecision counselling and self-re-parenting strategies are very important components of transactional analysis.

The Basic Transactional Analysis Concepts which underlie TA therapy include:

• We are all OK. We all have a basic lovable core and a desire for positive growth.
• All of our many facets have a positive value for us in some way.
• Positive stroking (or reinforcement) increases (feelings of ) OKness.
• We are all responsible for the way we think,feel, and act.
• Our beliefs and behaviour are results of decisions we have made at critical times in our growth. Any decision can be re-decided.
• All emotional difficulties are curable.
• The patient is a fully involved partner in the healing process.
• change is most likely to occur when the therapist and the client are both fully invested in a clear ,healthy contract for the behavioural change sought.
• The ultimate goal is internal awareness and harmony,spontaneity and authentic, open intimate communication with others.
  (Taken from M. White and J.White...Talking TA.. WPATA Publications..revised 1998.)

Transactional Analysis is part of my "spectrum approach" to psychological counselling.