PERSONALITY 1.5

 PERSONALITY 1.5

[TA & EGO STATES]

Transactional Analysis, commonly known as TA is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy. It was developed by Canadian-born US psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s. Berne presented his theories in two popular books on transactional analysis: Games People Play (1964) and What Do You Say After You Say Hello? (1975). Berne observed that there are several different people inside  every person. TA is a technique of analysing and understanding interpersonal behaviour. TA is a improved study of social transaction when two persons encounter and interact with each other.

TA is an effective technique due to,

• Effective Communication Without Any Understanding
• Overcoming Conflicts
• Good Interpersonal Relationship

note: 

1. One’s interaction with other, is called the Transaction Stimulus.
2. The reaction from the other person is called the Transaction Response.
3. The person sending stimulus is called Agent.
4. The person who responds is called Respondent.
5. And this relation is called Dyadic Relation (relation of two).

 EGO STATES

• While interacting with others, we adopt particular behaviour patterns i.e. particular ego state. It’s a person’s way of thinking, feeling and behaving.
• The three ego states are: Parent, Adult and Child.
• It has no relation with our chronological age, It’s related with our particular behaviour.
• Ego states are present in every person.
• We move from one ego state to another as per requirement.
• It’s a dominating state at that particular time.

note: Parent, Adult and Child, - These three personality instances have parallels to the superego, ego, and id of Freudian thought, and are given the added names Exteropsyche (Parent), Neopsyche (Adult), and Archaeopsyche (Child). 

PARENT: At this ego state we feel, think and behave like parent figure. It represents that part of personality which is authoritative, advising, protecting, nurturing,  righteous and critical. 

ADULT: At this ego state we feel, think and behave like adults in mature way. Processing well, reasoning, logical thinking and dealing fairly and neatly is of the Adult. At this state, we control emotions and believe in fairness. It forms through experience, knowledge and training. 

CHILD: At this ego state we feel think and behave like a child. It represents the childlike, innocent, emotional, sometimes immature, illogical or impulsive part of our personality. In Transactional Analysis (TA) the Child is also seen as the source of creativity and imagination.

(to be continued...)