Transactional Analysis (TA) is is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy, developed by Eric Berne during the 1950s. Transactions refer to the communication exchanges between people. Transactional analysis is the method used to analyses this process of transactions in communication with others. It requires us to be aware of how we feel, think and behave during interactions with others. TA recognized that the human personality is made up of three “ego states”; each of which is an entire system of thought, feeling, and behaviour from which we interact with each other. The Parent, Adult and Child ego states and the interaction between them form the foundation of transactional analysis theory.
