Transactional analysis (TA) focuses on how people interact and communicate. It views people as comprising three ego states - Parent, Adult, and Child. TA therapy aims to help clients become aware of outdated beliefs and decisions from childhood, make new empowering decisions, and change problematic interaction patterns. Therapists use techniques like roleplaying, confronting discounts and games, exploring racket systems, and contracting with clients to practice new behaviors. TA offers a practical framework for understanding communication and relationships and facilitating positive change.
4. Practice & Philosophy of TA
People are OK.
Everyone has the capacity to think.
People decide their own destiny, and
these decisions can be changed.
5. CRITICAL: COMMANDS, ORDERS
(DATA OF UNVERIFIED AUTHENTICITY)
E NURTURING: CARING, LOVING
G
O PROCESSING DETAILS,
RATIONAL THINKING
CAUSE & EFFECT RELATIONSHIP
G REALITY
R
A
ADAPTED: BORROWED EMOTIONS
M
NATURAL: CURIOSITY, SPONTANEOUS
EMOTIONS, CREATIVITY, FUN, JOY,
SEXUAL EMOTION, INTUITION
6. S=Stimulus
R=Response
Complimentary P
S
P
R
Transaction
A A
The transactional
vectors are parallel and
C C
the ego state
addressed is the one
which responds. It can P P
be from any ego state
to any other ego state.
A A
C C
7. Crossed Transaction
The transactional vectors
are not parallel or the ego P P
state addressed is not the
one which responds. In a A A
crossed transaction the
response comes from an C C
unexpected ego state.
8. Ulterior Transaction
(Angular)
P P
A transaction is overtly
directed at one (social)
level, but covertly at A A
another (psychological)
level.
C C
9. Ulterior Transaction
(Duplex)
Both the persons P P
involve in a more
important secret
(psychological) A A
transaction underlying
the overt (social)
transaction. C C
10. How do we remember?
Memory = Event + Emotion
Recall = Emotion + Event
12. Claude Steiners
Stroke Economy
DONT GIVE +VE STROKES
GIVE VE STROKES
DONT ACCEPT +VE STROKES
ACCEPT VE STROKES
DONT SELF-STROKE
13. Stroke Economy
DONT GIVE +VE STROKES
DONT GIVE VE STROKES
DONT ACCEPT +VE STROKES
DONT ACCEPT VE STROKES
DONT SELF-STROKE
14. Common Script Beliefs
COMMANDS BELIEFS
You mustnt exist. I mustnt exist.
You mustnt be you. I mustnt be me.
You mustnt be a child. I mustnt be a child.
You mustnt grow up. I mustnt grow up.
You mustnt make it. I mustnt make it.
You mustnt do anything. I mustnt do anything.
You mustnt be important. I mustnt be important.
You mustnt belong. I mustnt belong.
You mustnt be close. I mustnt be close.
You mustnt be well (sane). I mustnt be well (sane).
You mustnt think. I mustnt think.
You mustnt feel. I mustnt feel.
15. Life Script
Each person decides upon a plan for his/her
life beginning in earliest childhood.
It is constructed in the form of drama with a
clear-cut beginning, middle, & end.
Script payoff: Closing scene of the script
16. Life course depends on
Heredity
External events
Life-script
Autonomous decisions
18. What decides our behaviour?
Early experiences
Decisions & Scripts
Psychological positions
Script-reinforcing behaviours
19. Life Positions
Im not OK, Youre OK.
Im not OK, Youre not OK.
Im OK, Youre not OK.
Im OK, Youre OK.
20. YOU ARE OKAY WITH ME
I AM NOT OK I AM OK
YOU ARE OK YOU ARE OK
I AM NOT OKAY WITH ME
One down position Healthy position
I AM OKAY WITH ME
Get away from, helpless Get on with, happy
I AM NOT OK I AM OK
YOU ARE NOT OK YOU ARE NOT OK
Helpless position One up position
Get nowhere with, hopeless Get rid of, Angry
YOU ARE NOT OKAY WITH ME
22. Racket and Racket Feelings
RACKET FEELING: A familiar emotion, acquired in
childhood, and expressed later under stress. It is a
substitute for another feeling prohibited in family of
origin.
RACKET: A set of manipulative thoughts & behaviours
intended outside awareness to justify in experiencing
a racket feeling.
Each time a person gets strokes for a racket or racket
feeling, she will interpret this in Child as confirmation
of her script beliefs.
23. Questions to elicit racket feelings
How do you express when you fail in exams?
What do you tell to your Boss/Wife when you arrive
late?
What kinds of topics do you like most?
What aspects do you expect from your favorite film
star?
While talking for long time with your friend in mobile,
What excuse do you give to your mother?
24. A Racket System
RACKET SYSTEM
SCRIPT BELIEFS RACKETY DISPLAYS REINFORCING MEMORIES
Beliefs about: 1 Observable behaviours Emotional memories
1 Self (stylized, repetitive) (trading stamps)
2 Others provide evidence &
2 Reported internal
3 Quality of life justification
experience (somatic
(Intrapsychic process)
ailments: physical
Feelings repressed at sensations)
the time of script 3 Fantasies
decision
25. Time Structuring
Withdrawal: Being to oneself
Procedures: Give & take
Rituals: Wishing each other
Pastimes: Mine is better than yours
Activities: Action and satisfaction
Games: Transaction with a switch > negative strokes
Intimacy: Opening with others without walls > positive
strokes
26. Arena of the Games:
Karpmans Triangle
Persecutor Rescuer
Victim
27. Applying TA Therapy
Help client close escape hatches.
Develop therapeutic contract.
Describe specific tenets & terminology of TA.
Create awareness of scripts.
Reinforce redecisions.
Enforce cognitive/rational domain of behaviou.r
Challenge to change current pattern.s
Enhance client autonomy to reduce dependence.
28. Closing Escape Hatches
You need to promise yourself that
- You will never, in any circumstances, kill or harm
yourself, try to kill or harm yourself, or set up to kill
or harm yourself, accidentally or on purpose.
- You will never, in circumstances, kill or harm anyone
else, try to kill or harm anyone else, or set up to kill
or harm anyone else, accidentally or on purpose.
- You will never, in any circumstances, go crazy, try to
go crazy or set up to go crazy, accidentally or on
purpose.
29. Therapeutic Contract: Why?
1. To have the client actively involved in the
counselling process
2. To provide a mental set towards change
3. To know when the work is complete
4. To guard against imposition of the therapists
goals on the client.
5. To discourage pursuit of covert agendas
30. Effective Contract-making
1. Is the contract goal feasible?
2. Is it safe?
3. Is it stated in positive words?
4. Is it observable?
5. Is it placed in a clear context?
6. Does this mark a movement out of script and
into the autonomy for the client?
32. Techniques of TA
Active listening skills
Finding the script
Confrontation for redecision process
Role-play
Contracts to achieve target
Enhance redecision process: get commitment
to change
Self-scripting
34. Discovering Racket & Racket Feelings
When things go wrong for you, how do you feel?
Do you recognize this as a familiar feeling of yours?
Is it a feeling you experience in response to a wide range of
different situations?
When did you last feel these feelings?
What was the situation in which you felt it?
With hindsight, how far would you say you had a part in
setting up that situation, though you are not responsible?
35. Discovering Racket & Racket Feelings (Contd.)
Did the feeling you felt help you to get your needs met in
the here-and-now?
When you were a child, was this feeling favoured or
rewarded in your family?
Suppose you were using this favoured feeling to cover up
another feeling that was prohibited or punished when you
were a child, what would you guess is this original feeling
you were covering up?
36. Outdated Beliefs
Redefining: Distorting of self, others &
world
Discounting: Ignoring / minimizing
contrary evidence
Detect clues in behaviour.
Help to update script beliefs,
resolve script feelings, and move
out of scripty behaviour.
37. Therapy Through TA: 1
Challenging Out-Dated Beliefs
Working with racket feelings
Peeling the onion
Confronting the games
Confronting the discounts
Moving to intimacy at Switch
38. Therapy Through TA: 2
Making New Decisions
(Robert and Mary Goulding)
Making the contract
Closing the escape hatch
Providing safe setting
39. Making a Redecision: 1
Establish a session contract.
Invite a client to re-experience a problem scene.
Invite a client to re-experience a related scene from
childhood.
While client is in child ego state invite to the present
resources (the Adult ego state).
40. Making a Redecision: 2
When during the Child ego state, invite client to make a
new decision and watch the shift to authentic feeling.
Bring client to Adult ego state; invite to anchor the re-
decision immediately in the Here-and-Now
Carry out Adult to de-brief, the meaning of the new
decision.
Negotiate with client a contract to practice new decision.
41. TA: Advantages
Quick psychoanalysis: Understood on a "here-and-
now" basis.
Universal usage: Utilized in day-to-day communication
with others, irrespective of age, sex & situation.
Repairing relationships: Used in understanding and
managing relationship with another.
Self-analysis: Used to understand and change oneself.
Restructuring PT: Used in restructuring psychotherapy