Transactional analysis revisited
- Arkansas Human Development Pub. 1978
- 321p.
In studying Transactional Analysis I have desired most a comprehensive, integrated work. This is it! Taibi Kahler demonstrated his creativity and brilliance in his original article on the Miniscript, for which he received the Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award. This book reflects his depth and comprehension as a theoretician and linician. He has enlarged on his Process School of T.A. and integrated the works of other leading contributors. Taibi's first major focus is on the division of structural analysis into structure and function. Structural analysis is inferential, while functional analysis is observable and measurable. Creatively expanding Berne's theories, Taibi systematizes the structural ego states each into opinions, thoughts, and feelings. Then he bridges to function with a cogent integration of unbound, bound, free energy theory. The resulting functional manifestations of a person's structure, as categorized into mutually exclusive ego states diagnosable by words, tones, gestures, postures, and facial expressions, provide both sequence and different- iation in determining when someone is communicating in OKness or miscommunicating in NOT OKness.