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The TA Primer: Transactional Analysis in Everyday Life
Uses simple terminology to illustrate the principles and dynamics of this interpersonal form of therapy
151 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1973
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May 23, 2025
کتابچه کوچک و جالبی درباره معرفی مفهوم TAبود و کمی من رو به فکر وا داشت که همینش نکته خیلی مثبتیه!
هرچند که به شخصه پرچمدار متعصب روانکاوی ام و به «اراده و اختیار»اونقدر اعتقادی ندارم اما گریز به سایر رویکرد ها و تقابل فکری بینشون برام جذاب و تعمق مندانست..
هرچند که به شخصه پرچمدار متعصب روانکاوی ام و به «اراده و اختیار»اونقدر اعتقادی ندارم اما گریز به سایر رویکرد ها و تقابل فکری بینشون برام جذاب و تعمق مندانست..
August 8, 2021
کتاب بدی برای یه آشنایی سطحی با "تحلیل رفتار متقابل" نیست، ولی چندان محتوای خاصی برای ارائه نداره و فقط یه سری اطلاعات سطحی برای شناخت بیشتر با خودمون و داشتن روابط بهتر با دیگران ارائه داده.
August 23, 2024
A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS
Adelaide Bry (1921-1983) was a counseling psychologist who wrote a number of books about popular psychology, such as 'est: 60 Hours That Transform Your Life,' 'Inside Psychotherapy,' 'Visualization: Directing the Movies of Your Mind,' 'The Sexually Aggressive Woman,' etc.
This book is an EXTREME popular simplification of the principles of TA, which was developed by Eric Berne [e.g., Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy, etc.]. This 153-page 1973 book is literally half pictures/drawings on one page, and some brief text on the opposite page; a "text only" edition would probably contain only about 30 pages of text! (Too bad Ms. Bry lived before the days of Kindle; read her daughter Barbara's article, 'My Mother's Best Lesson,' for more background.) This simplification appears to be limited to this book; I've read her 'est' book and SAW book, and they were quite detailed.
That being said, the book contains a useful overview of TA (given at the "elevator pitch" level): The "I'm OK, You're OK" model; the Parent/Adult/Child ego states; "strokes," and so on.
If you want a book to read in about thirty minutes to give you a "quickie" overview of Transactional Analysis, this will do; if you want a more extensive popularization, try Thomas Harris's I'm OK, You're OK; or better yet, Berne's own Games People Play.
Adelaide Bry (1921-1983) was a counseling psychologist who wrote a number of books about popular psychology, such as 'est: 60 Hours That Transform Your Life,' 'Inside Psychotherapy,' 'Visualization: Directing the Movies of Your Mind,' 'The Sexually Aggressive Woman,' etc.
This book is an EXTREME popular simplification of the principles of TA, which was developed by Eric Berne [e.g., Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy, etc.]. This 153-page 1973 book is literally half pictures/drawings on one page, and some brief text on the opposite page; a "text only" edition would probably contain only about 30 pages of text! (Too bad Ms. Bry lived before the days of Kindle; read her daughter Barbara's article, 'My Mother's Best Lesson,' for more background.) This simplification appears to be limited to this book; I've read her 'est' book and SAW book, and they were quite detailed.
That being said, the book contains a useful overview of TA (given at the "elevator pitch" level): The "I'm OK, You're OK" model; the Parent/Adult/Child ego states; "strokes," and so on.
If you want a book to read in about thirty minutes to give you a "quickie" overview of Transactional Analysis, this will do; if you want a more extensive popularization, try Thomas Harris's I'm OK, You're OK; or better yet, Berne's own Games People Play.
January 31, 2014
The analysis and classification of temperament has potential, but it's very poorly developed. A very shallow read.
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