Transactional Analysis

With Transactional Analysis, Eric Berne made complex interpersonal transactions understandable especially the “games” that the “inner child” plays in order to gain recognition from others. Eric Berne (1910-1970) the founder of Transactional...

Transactional Analysis and Psychoanalysis: Writing Styles

Abstract The author compares the languages of transactional analysis and psychoanalysis and argues that in his break with psychoanalysis, Eric Berne took leave, primarily, of the linguistic and therefore conceptual style of psychoanalysis. He sought to write, speak,...

Forget the Unconscious; An Essay

by Claude Steiner PhD Often in discussing transactional analysis with fellow professionals I find that they express astonishment over our apparent rejection of “the unconscious.” Clearly, consciousness is only the tip of the mental iceberg. We have been...

Stroke-Centered Transactional Analysis

By the time he finished Games People Play, Eric Berne’s transactional analysis theory had almost ten years to differentiate itself from psychoanalytic thinking and to mature in its own right. In the Introduction to that book, Berne laid out his stroke theory and made...
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