Transactional analysis: Basic tenets and philosophy

✍ Scribed by Arnold Kambly

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 782 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(197507)12:3<252::aid-pits2310120302>3.0.co;2-q

✦ Synopsis

he L'~iversily Cetiter (This is the first in a series of three articles by I)r. Kambly, a psychiatrist with 25 years' experience working with students arid their families. It. is hoped that, these articles will be of great value to 01 psychologists in working with students.) %thin each of us there are t unique beings, or ego states: Parent, Adult, and Child. Ihsay's "Egogram" is discussed. This is a new concept in evaluating personality striictrire. Three types of Trarisactions are reviewed: complementary, crossed, and ulterior. Ulterior t ransactions forni the bwis for psychological games. Various t,ypes of stroking are discussed, and a stroking profile is mentioned, whivh ties together the conrepts of stroking. Stamps represent a saving tip of feelings, to be turned in later as jristification for action or non-action. Contracts are disciissed in terms of their basic relation between the psychologist and the st rideiit. Four basic requirements for a valid contract are: mutual consent, valid consideration, legal object, arid competency. Contracts represent goals, and the student must be helped t o get, where he wants to go. Students heneft from a reactive environment.