I was into Transactional Analysis for a while before I got into Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP inoculated me against several of the TA claims. One was when I learned that Dr. Berne was a Freudian, and he still used Freudian analysis for himself. The other was when we got into sub-personalities, and the instructors said that the only people they'd seen with Parent, Adult and Child sub personalities were people who had been through TA. And they all had them. Apparently TA creates those sub personalities.
One of the things we were being trained to do was avoid unconsciously imposing our own biases on people we were working with. A lot easier said than done!
The TA books are still useful as catalogs of problematic behaviors.
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Berne, et. al
Date: 2018-02-09 09:58 pm (UTC)One of the things we were being trained to do was avoid unconsciously imposing our own biases on people we were working with. A lot easier said than done!
The TA books are still useful as catalogs of problematic behaviors.
John Roth