Transactional analysis in psychiatric practice
The author asserts that T.A. takes his special place in the ongoing current of psychiatrie thinking, viz. it synthetisizes different trends in a way that breaks many barriers in the practical use of psychiatric insight and experiences. The barrier between 'the doctor and his patient' is an important one as well as that between the psychiatrist and the layman or the society as such. Hence the T.A. can promote the reach of modern psychiatry. Critical remarks are reviewed and sometimes underlined. Its simplistic character is denied. Special attention is given to unresolved questions posed by T.A.- thinking, e.g. that concerning the place of the Parent, the view on human existence: T.A. too departs from a certain, mostly hidden ideal type of the homo socialis. In conclusion: T.A. is a usefull contribution to the accessibility of psychiatric thinking in the measure there is space for critical, accounted training, with flexibility as to the application of insights. Its main value seems to be the possibility to furnish a communicable survey about what's going on in the relationship between the therapist and his client.