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 [...]