Meaning of Definition of Transactional Analysis

Meaning of Definition of Transactional Analysis

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I am explaining the most popular definition: TA is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change.

• The goal of TA practice is personal growth and personal change. 

Personal Growth means allowing hidden potentialities to sprout. This is much like pulses which sprout when we soak them in water and leave them overnight wrapped in a damp cloth. It means that the seeds for growth are available in our system and all they need is a suitable environment.

Personal Change means being born a new person. One way to achieve this is by redecision. Another way is by reciting assertive statements every day in the morning. See the assertive statements here> Daily Assertions

• The method to use is psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy in TA context is to visit the past to remedy the present. It yields results when we make new decisions and make new choices. It helps us to recover our capacities for OKness, thinking and redeciding.

• The material to work on is Personality. The thing to do is to resolve its anomalies.

This is achieved by freeing the Free Child, installing a Permissive Parent and Empowering the Adult by process of clarification and strengthening its ego state boundaries.

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Ajit Karve works out of Pune

He is a Psychotherapy Practitioner

a BTA in TA from ICTA Kochi