morgan_blackledge's review
5.0
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a model for mapping interpersonal dynamics developed during the 1960s by Dr. Eric Berne.
TA is based on two core assumptions:
1. Everyone has three basic parts or 'ego-states' to our 'personality:
• the Parent (P) which consists of traits we learned from our own parents and from our cultural conventions of parenting
• the Child (C) which is reminiscent of how we felt and behaved in childhood
• the Adult (A) which is a stable, reasonable, grownup response to situations and others.
2. Our various (P-A-C) ego states become active or inactive depending on our level of psychological maturity, and in response to environmental and interpersonal situations.
The following brief, fun, mind blowing YouTube video series explains TA better than any sort written description possible could.
Hit this link ( http://youtu.be/nKNyFSLJy6o) and get ready to have your psychological shit ROCKED!!!!
This book, Strokes and Hungers by Catherine Holden is not an erotica novel. It's a short, exceptionally well done exploration of a particular aspect of the TA model. One installment in a series of short books on TA (.99 cents each),
In a nutshell:
A "stroke" is a unit of human interaction. If I say hi to you, that's one stroke. If you say hi back, that's one stroke returned.
Strokes can be positive (pleasant) or negative (unpleasant).
A "hunger" refers various particular ways we crave strokes.
According to TA. We humans operate in a vast stroke economy where we give, take and trade strokes with each other, all day, every day.
According to TA, we're all standing around with invisible signs saying "will work to receive positive strokes and to avoid negative strokes" and most of us don't even know it.
We feel dissed if we don't receive the positive strokes we crave and we feel awesome when we get them. We feel horrible when we get negative strokes and we'll do pretty much anything to avoid them.
How do we exit the matrix?
We can't entirely, nor would we want to.
Strokes and Hungers are not necessarily bad, they're just part of the human condition.
But we can differentiate from the stroke economy by modeling and mapping the system, and taking conscious control over our stroke seeking and giving behavior.
In other words, we can be unconsciously ruled by our strokes and hungers, or we can take conscious control and become baller AF stroke brokers.
Take my word for it. TA is one of those third eye opening models.
Once you're equipped with this particular blueprint, you're simply on another level when it comes to interpersonal transactions.
Do yourself a favor and at least check out the afore mentioned videos (http://youtu.be/nKNyFSLJy6o).
After you do, if you're still hungry for more, slap down your .99 and get this killer little book.
TA is based on two core assumptions:
1. Everyone has three basic parts or 'ego-states' to our 'personality:
• the Parent (P) which consists of traits we learned from our own parents and from our cultural conventions of parenting
• the Child (C) which is reminiscent of how we felt and behaved in childhood
• the Adult (A) which is a stable, reasonable, grownup response to situations and others.
2. Our various (P-A-C) ego states become active or inactive depending on our level of psychological maturity, and in response to environmental and interpersonal situations.
The following brief, fun, mind blowing YouTube video series explains TA better than any sort written description possible could.
Hit this link ( http://youtu.be/nKNyFSLJy6o) and get ready to have your psychological shit ROCKED!!!!
This book, Strokes and Hungers by Catherine Holden is not an erotica novel. It's a short, exceptionally well done exploration of a particular aspect of the TA model. One installment in a series of short books on TA (.99 cents each),
In a nutshell:
A "stroke" is a unit of human interaction. If I say hi to you, that's one stroke. If you say hi back, that's one stroke returned.
Strokes can be positive (pleasant) or negative (unpleasant).
A "hunger" refers various particular ways we crave strokes.
According to TA. We humans operate in a vast stroke economy where we give, take and trade strokes with each other, all day, every day.
According to TA, we're all standing around with invisible signs saying "will work to receive positive strokes and to avoid negative strokes" and most of us don't even know it.
We feel dissed if we don't receive the positive strokes we crave and we feel awesome when we get them. We feel horrible when we get negative strokes and we'll do pretty much anything to avoid them.
How do we exit the matrix?
We can't entirely, nor would we want to.
Strokes and Hungers are not necessarily bad, they're just part of the human condition.
But we can differentiate from the stroke economy by modeling and mapping the system, and taking conscious control over our stroke seeking and giving behavior.
In other words, we can be unconsciously ruled by our strokes and hungers, or we can take conscious control and become baller AF stroke brokers.
Take my word for it. TA is one of those third eye opening models.
Once you're equipped with this particular blueprint, you're simply on another level when it comes to interpersonal transactions.
Do yourself a favor and at least check out the afore mentioned videos (http://youtu.be/nKNyFSLJy6o).
After you do, if you're still hungry for more, slap down your .99 and get this killer little book.
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