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Section II: Teaching Transactional Analysis

The Application of Transactional Analysis in a Participatory Forest Management Program

Pages 286-290
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes the application of basic transactional analysis principles in a participatory management program for forest officials who are seeking the collaboration of local village people in managing the forest regions of India.

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Raktima Mukherjee

Shri Pradip Bhattacharya, is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, now Secretary to the government of West Bengal. He is an accredited basic TA trainer of the TA Society of India (TASI) and founding chairperson of the TASI chapter in Calcutta. He was the only third-world delegate to address the 1980 national conference of the Institute of Transactional Analysis (United Kingdom) and sole Indian recipient of the 1989 International Human Resource Development Fellowship by the University of Manchester. He is the author of 13 published books and has also contributed a number of articles on TA to national and international journals.
Mrs. Mitali Chatterjee, a noted anthropologist, is honorary secretary of the Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and Development (IBRAD) and a research officer in the anthropological survey of India. She has completed a certificate course in gender and natural resource management from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She has made noteworthy contributions to the field of anthropology and in imparting training in forest management. She has conducted intensive research among tribal people and rural areas covering anthropological and environmental issues. Mrs. Chatterjee has authored two books and contributed several research papers to national and international journals.
Ms. Raktima Mukherjee is Project Coordinator of IBRAD and a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She has conducted a number of research programs in the field of joint forest management using TA and has been imparting training for forest officials, nongovernmental organizations, and community members of forest management. She has published a number of research papers and articles, including an article on TA, in national and international journals.