Health Sciences 3820A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Transactional Analysis
24 Jan 2019
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Reading c - transactional analysis theory - the basics. Our personalities are made up of the parent, adult, and child ego states. The parent ego a set of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that are learned or borrowed" from our parents or other caretakers. It is divided into two functions: nurturing parent the nurturing side - soft, loving, gives permission. Critical/prejudiced parent made up of prejudged thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. Some are helpful in living, while others are not. The adult ego our data-processing center. Allows us to process data accurately and come up w/ solutions to our problems based on facts as opposed to prejudged thoughts. The child ego the part of our personality that is the seat of emotions, thoughts, and feelings and all of the feeling state memories" that we have of ourselves from childhood.
