transactional analysis

noun

Psychology.

1. a form of individual or group psychotherapy focusing on social interactions, psychological games, and analysis of relationships as persons shift among the roles of parent, child, and adult. TA

transactional analysis

noun

1. psychol a form of psychotherapy that attributes neuroses to lack of balance in the personality between the conflicting ego-states of child, adult, and parent

Word History and Origins

Origin of transactional analysis¹

First recorded in 1960–65