How does transactional analysis help me with patients?
You may have brushed against transactional analysis in a psychology course and forgotten it, but it is playing out in every patient interaction you have. The short version is that people relate to each other from different states, roughly a parent state, an adult state, and a child state, and the state you operate from pulls the patient into a matching one. Lecture a patient like a scolding parent and you push them into a defensive child who nods and then never books. Meet them adult to adult and you get a real decision. The value is simply awareness. Once you notice which mode you and your patient are in, you can shift it on purpose. Stay in the adult state, treat them as a capable equal, and you will help far more patients than by talking down to them.
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