Transactional Analysis
What does it mean to be an adult (psychologically mature)? From the point of view of Transactional Analysis (usually abbreviated to TA) there are two answers to this question. The first answer to this is the qualities which people have in their relationships to others and the world. There are three of these qualities: awareness, [...]
It’s not (all) their fault (usually). Parents get a bad deal I think. The expectations are growing and the support is shrinking. The expectations are extraordinary. It seems that parents are now expected to be supervising their children 24/7. When I was young (not all THAT long ago) it wasn’t like this. Now it seems [...]
Image by puroticorico We carry our childhood with us. Often we focus on the wounds that we have left over from then. This is probably because it is mostly therapists who write about this kind of thing and they tend to see wounded people. For most of us our childhood also contains lots of [...]
Image by Guylaine2007 These three qualities come from Transactional Analysis (usually abbreviated to TA). (Transactional Analysis is a psychotherapy invented by Eric Berne and his friends – people such as Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward, Stephen Karpman, Claude Steiner and many others – on the West Coast of America in the 1950′s and 1960′s. The best [...]
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