transactional analysis

transactional analysis Word Origin 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. Abbreviation: TA

Origin of transactional analysis First recorded in 1960–65 British Dictionary definitions for transactional analysis 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

transactional analysis in Medicine transactional analysis [trăn-săk′shə-nəl, -zăk′-] n.

1. 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.