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"Compliment yourself unconditionally just for being yourself, and
conditionally for your very real achievement. . . . No matter how painful, it must be
dealt with." - Dr Muriel James.
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Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:Briefing
"With brutal parents many children feel frightened and angry, but often try to
hide their feelings out of fear.
With overindulgent parents, many children feel powerful when having a rebellious
temper tantrum to get what they want.
With inconsistent parents, many children discover that if they whine and beg
they stand a 50-50 chance of either being spanked or getting what they want." - Dr Muriel
James [p. 32]
Sage Words
Transactional Analysis (TA) brings a theory of social intercourse, and contained in it is
a specific [Neo-Freudian] theory of personality that revolves around what is called ego
states. These personality instances may be the Freudian id (TA Child), ego (TA
Adult); and superego (TA Parent) in new wordings; they closely resemble the Freudian key
concepts. - TK.TA, which was originally created as a psychiatric theory and practice, and evolved into a psychotherapy of analysed transactions between people, has proved valuable in different settings in several countries.
TA can be used for understanding and improving communication, and has proved to help a lot as a tool in management and communications. One of its elements is mutual contracting for growth and change as defined or understood. It shows (hidden) respect for a common humanity of people.
One may seldom find a better tendentious "definition" than this one:
"Whatever deals with ego states is transactional analysis, and whatever overlooks them is not." - Eric Berne, in Sex in Human Loving.
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Berne, Eric. Sex in Human Loving. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
——— Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy. New York: Grove, 1971.
James, Muriel. Transactional Analysis for Moms and Dads. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1974.
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