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Transactional Analysis in Group Work

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I have been adventuring with Transactional Analysis (TA) for more than a dozen years. I originally met TA in Tom Harris’s book, I’m OK-You’re OK (1967). And it was there I learned my first lesson about TA. It was understandable. It talked of “ego states” and helped me lay hold of the way things were within myself.

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Grimes, J. (1988). Transactional Analysis in Group Work. In: Long, S. (eds) Six Group Therapies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2100-0_2

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