transactional analysis

noun

, Psychology.

1. a form of individual or group psychotherapy focusing on social interactions, psychological games, and analysis of relationships as persons shift among the roles of parent, child, and adult. : TA

transactional analysis

noun

1. psychol a form of psychotherapy that attributes neuroses to lack of balance in the personality between the conflicting ego-states of child, adult, and parent

Word History and Origins

Origin of transactional analysis¹

First recorded in 1960–65