TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS

Transactional Analysis (TA) was founded by Eric Berne in the 1950’s, and incorporates humanistic, integrative and psychoanalytical and psychodynamic therapies and is designed to promote personal growth and change.

Transactional Analysis is a talking therapy and aims to explore an individual’s personality and how this has been shaped by experience, in particular those from childhood.

The philosophy of TA is based on three assumptions:

• I’m OK, You’re OK – that we both have worth, value and dignity.
• Everyone has the capacity to think – we are responsible for deciding what we want from life.
• People decide their own destiny, and these decisions can be changed – we sometimes follow strategies decided in childhood, and although we are both OK, we may adopt not-OK behaviour.