transactional analysis

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

Origin of transactional analysis

First recorded in 1960–65

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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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transactional analysis in Medicine

transactional analysis

[trăn-săk′shə-nəl, -zăk′-]

n.

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.