transactional analysis

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noun Psychology.

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. Abbreviation: TA

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Origin of transactional analysis

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby transactional analysis

transact, transactinide, transactinide element, transaction, transactional, transactional analysis, transactivate, transacylase, Trans Alai, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, transaldolation

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How to use transactional analysis in a sentence

Sex, then, is not wholly experiential but at least partially transactional.
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Open and transparent transactional markets also make it easier for sex workers to share information and vet potential clients.
Sex Workers Don't Deserve to be Raped|Jillian Keenan|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That's the point of transactional politicians; they do transactions.
The Dems’ Fork in the Road|David Frum|November 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Analysis of the 2014 vote showed that Democrats had been hurt by an abrupt drop in Latino turnout.
How Ted Cruz Can Win in 2016|David Frum|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST

But, over time, it reduces our communications to their most basic and transactional.
Wired Executives Find that Disconnecting Can Help Spur Creativity|Beth Comstock|October 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Analysis and practice in preparation are the steps over which we must climb to the platform of power.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Recollective Analysis, or Analysis for the purpose of helping to learn by heart, is not an originating or manufacturing process.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
It is either thoughtless repetition, or thoughtful Analysis that he must use.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
At all events, let him if possible learn each of the three Groups by his own Analysis, looking at my work afterwards.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Now the practice of Interrogative Analysis compels such persons to interrogate—to propose questions—to think.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

British Dictionary definitions for transactional analysis

transactional analysis

noun

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

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Medical definitions for transactional analysis

transactional analysis

[ trăn-săk′shə-nəl, -zăk′- ]

A system of psychotherapy that analyzes personal relationships and interactions in terms of conflicting or complementary ego states that correspond to the roles of parent, child, and adult.