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Positive Psychology and Transactional Analysis

Pages 61-74
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This articles describes the author's encounter with two “positive” psychologies—transactional analysis and positive psychology— and some of the similarities and differences in their founding, evolution, and branding. Because transactional analysis has remarkable properties as a metalanguage, many positive psychology ideas can be considered from a TA perspective and translated into TA concepts. On the other hand, positive psychology may be able to provide research evidence for concepts from transactional analysis. This comparison highlights the contradictions deeply embedded within transactional analysis theory between a philosophical framework based on the empirical scientific paradigm of the 1950s, which focuses on “objectivity,” and a more contemporary constructivist philosophy, which focuses on “subjectivity.”

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Rosemary Napper

Rosemary Napper is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the organizational and educational fields and also a Certified Transactional Analyst in the counseling field. She is director of TAworks (www.TAworks.co.uk), a training establishment in Oxford, United Kingdom, that provides transactional analysis training and supervision in all four fields. She also provides services as a coach and consultant to individuals and organizations. She can be reached at 42 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1HZ, United Kingdom; e-mail: .
 

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