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Section 4. Organizational Applications

When Conventional Wisdom Doesn't Work: Transactional Analysis Theory, Myers-Briggs Analysis, and Patient Compliance

Pages 76-78
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Combining the concept of introvert and extrovert qualities (Myers-Briggs & Myers, 1980) with the transactional analysis concepts of ego states (Berne, 1961) and frame of reference (Schiff et al., 1975) provides health professionals with useful information to help achieve or improve patient compliance with health directives.

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Mary Sleeth Paananen

Susan Legender Clarke has been a chiropractor since 1984. She is in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota at “The Healing Circle.” Mary Sleeth Paananen is a registered nurse, parent educator, and author. She lives in Seattle, Washington, and has been teaching transactional analysis-based parenting classes since 1980. Both authors are in transactional analysis training in education with Jean Illsley Clarke and Russell Osnes.