Transactional Analysis seen by a critical parent eye: Crossed transactions, reality or graphic illusion? Parallel communication
Authors
Vandra Attila
Trainer of the Romanian Association of Debates, Oratory and Rhetoric (ARDOR) and Transsylvanian Debate Association (EDE)
Abstract
Transactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is a psychoanalytic theory of psychology, developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s, (Berne, E. 1957) based on the study of evolution and the pathological functioning of ego states (Várkonyi F. Zsuzsa, 2003).