A useful way of understanding human personality as Ego States, or systems of thinking, feeling, and acting that exist within each of us. The last sentence was cut off, and should be “The more I learn about myself and how I operate with three ego …
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Fanita English talks about Ego States in Transactional Analysis
November 24, 2011 by NewsBot - No Comment
Transactional Analysis and Ego States
September 1, 2009 by admin - No Comment
Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis developed the PAC model, the three ego states, Parent, Adult and Child. These are a mixture of behaviours, thoughts and feelings. The Parent ego state, or exteropsyche – is a state in which people think and behave like their own parental figures did in their childhood. When in [...]
History of Transactional Analysis
February 26, 2009 by NewsBot - Comments Off
TA is not only post-Freudian but according to its founder’s wishes consciously extra-Freudian. That is to say that while it has its roots in psychoanalysis – since Berne was a psychoanalytic-trained psychiatrist – it was designed as a…
