Talk:Transactional analysis

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Yup, good fixes, Taak :) FT2 21:27, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Michigan Transactional Analysis

Can anyone clarify for me exactly which writers or thinkers would be referred to as "Michigan Transactional Analysis"? I believe that is the school of TA that came up with a rather specific 9-part breakdown of the psyche, which Bandler and Grinder (of NLP fame/infamy) were influenced by, but ridiculed for its rigidity and artificiality. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:16, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

I have been a member, officer, and committee member of the International Transactional Analysis Association since 1970. I have also been a member and officer of the USA group since it was founded in the mid 1970's. There has not been a Michigan Transactional Analysis school. There was a group know as the Huron Valley Institute located in Ann Arbor Michigan led by Stanley Woolams, Michael Brown and Kristyn Huige. Woolams and Brown wrote Transactional Analysis: A Modern and Comprehensive Text of TA Theory and Practice, 1978 Huron Valey Institute Press. There are diagrams in the book that break ego states into nine parts. None of the three are currently affiliated with any TA Association.

Jonathon Wagner, Chair, ITAA Internet Committee, Moderator ITAA-forum at yahoogroups.--209.74.154.184 03:42, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, the "nine parts" and a Michigan location makes it pretty clear this is whom they were talking about. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:04, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Inner child"

I notice that the phrase "inner child appears nowhere in this article. I believe it has TA origins, and it has certainly passed into the language. If someone knows about this on a more solid basis than I do, could you please cite and add to the article? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:16, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

In 1993 I was the conference coordinator for the ITAA conference Addiction In Society: Shame Addiction and the Child Ego State. Richard Subby was a featured speaker and guest workshop leader. He is one of several people working in 12 step programs for addictins who have some training in trnsactional analysis. It is this group of professionals who adapted the adapted the transactional analysis chid ego states to the inner child language. Because so much of 12 step care focuses on the internal workings of the mind, inner child is a phrase that fits well with those self help groups.

Jonathon Wagner, Currently, Chair ITAA Internet Committee, Moderator for ITAA-forum at yahoogroups.--209.74.154.184 03:12, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. I am certain, though, that the expression goes back at least to the mid-1970s. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:08, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Ditto. I would be amazed if Berne and those around him hadn't used the term 'inner child' in the 60s, even if it wasn't written down (fx: goes home to check) The Land 16:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)