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1950s, and was popularized by Thomas Harris in his book Im Ok -- Youre OK in 1969. It provides a unified system of individual and social psychiatry that is
comprehensive at the theoretical level and effective at the applied level. Accentuating personal worth, as opposed to traditional analysis which examines a persons past, TA seeks clues to current behavior.
Instead of the Freudian id, ego and superego, TA examines the child, adult and parent trinity in every person using language anyone can understand. It identifies things that
really happened in the lives of people who really existed, and how they behave in relation to others. The "transaction" is the unit of behavior examined. It consists of
one person saying or doing something another, and that person responding back (Harris (1985), 11). Transactional analysis consists of identifying which of the three parts of the first person,
i.e. child, adult, or parent, took the first action and which part of the second person responded. The "parent" is the voice of authority in our heads. Each
parent is a recording of the real parents or substitutes in ones early childhood, and includes both positive and critical aspects. It participates in internal dialog, and can sometimes
be a distorted voice (Harris (1985), 14-16). The "Adult" is the individual part of the person that thinks, reasons, and figures out how to do things. The "Child" is
largely feeling centered, and includes ones intuition, curiosity, instincts, urges, and physical body. Wants and motivations are mainly associated with the child (Harris (1985), 16-18). The counselors goal in
TA is to strengthen the adult in the patient by clearly identifying which internal entity is participating in any given transaction, and to figure out whether any given response is
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