Developing a Coherent Map of Transactional Analysis Theories

Bibliographic Data

ID20177566
AuthorsIngo Rath (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume23
Issue4
Pages201-215
Publication date1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/036215379302300405
OpenAlexW2578443192
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited12

This article offers some theoretical reflections on the foundations of transactional analysis with criteria for a scientific theory. A common basis for the different theories, models, and explanations in transactional analysis is presented. The view of the human mind as a self-organizing system is derived from the transactional analysis view of human nature and from Berne's approach to the human psyche as an organ in itself. The theories of personality structure and dynamics (ego system and ego states), the creation of relationships (seen as an expanded communication theory), and the creation of life (script theory) are considered as a closely related network that forms a coherent map of transactional analysis theories. The importance of the role of the ego system and the need for a definition of exteropsychic and archeopsychic ego states as pathological within the structural model is examined. The functional model and the connection and transition between the structural and the functional models are described

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Transactional analysis · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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