Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action

This book is a practical guide to the use of transactional analysis in counselling. It is aimed at counsellor trainers and their trainees, as well as at practising counsellors who are interested in developing TA skills. TA is notable for its clarity of concept and simplicity of language. It offers an approach that promotes understanding and immediately catches the imagination. Yet underlying this surface appeal is a closely-reasoned theoretical structure. This book emphasizes powerful...
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This book is a practical guide to the use of transactional analysis in counselling. It is aimed at counsellor trainers and their trainees, as well as at practising counsellors who are interested in developing TA skills. TA is notable for its clarity of concept and simplicity of language. It offers an approach that promotes understanding and immediately catches the imagination. Yet underlying this surface appeal is a closely-reasoned theoretical structure. This book emphasizes powerful new techniques and concepts in TA that have been developed during the past two decades. Illustrating by means of an actual case-history, Ian Stewart describes the systematic process of counselling in TA. He traces the client′s progress from first contact and i