A neo-Freudian theory of personality which suggests that there are three elements to personality and that behaviour is controlled by whichever aspect of personality is in charge at the time that the behaviour occurs. It is practised in a group acting...

Transactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is a psychoanalytic (ie, consciously post-Freudian) theory of psychology and psychotherapy developed by Canadian-born US psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late...

This investigation reviews published empirical studies that attempted to support or to validate transactional distance theory (Moore, 1993). It was found that either data only partially supported the theory or, that if they apparently did so, the studies lacked reliability, construct validity, or both....

I have attempted to integrate two divergent fields in applied psychology, the psychophysiological detection of deception (polygraph testing) and the transactional analysis theory. Transactional analysis theory provides a useful framework for understanding the examiner-examinee interaction in the pretest interview of the widely used but...

Essay provides a discussion about transactional analysis according to the definition of Eric Berne.