Transactional Analysis Proper-and Improper: Selected and New Papers offers a critical reading of transactional analysis (TA), which analyses, deconstructs, and reconstructs its foundational theory.
Keith Tudor-s work is detailed, informative, and critical, and written with deep affection for TA and its founder, Eric Berne. Beginning with its philosophical foundations, Tudor considers TA-s ontological assumptions about the essence of human beings, its method and methodology, and its treatment philosophy. A series of chapters then review and advance TA-s theory of transactions, ego states, life scripts, and psychological games, and the book concludes with two chapters which both honor TA-s traditions and look forward to what TA might do differently.
This book offers a unique -insider but independent- perspective on transactional analysis. It will be essential reading for students and practitioners of transactional analysis and encourages free, independent, and criti
