
Pictures from the 2018 Jamaica TA Gathering
See some of the pictures from the 2018 NATAA Jamaica Gathering.
NATAA Council Retreat in Tucson
Knowing how to play is one of the characteristics found in NATAA members, and especially, our Council. We spent two days meeting in Tucson this spring, covering everything from membership and budget to social media and visions for the future. We even beamed in Cheryl...
Book Review: The OK Boss, by Muriel James (1975). Illustrations by John Trotta.
“The OK Boss” is available used, on Amazon “The OK Boss” is one of Muriel James’ many reader-friendly guides on how to apply TA to everyday life situations. As she states in the introduction, “ At one time or another, almost everyone is a boss: Parents, spouses,...
Remembering Claude Steiner (By Lucy Freedman, CTA)
I first heard of Claude as the author of the Warm Fuzzy Tale, and of Games Alcoholics Play, but when I read my first article in Issues in Radical Therapy, the publication of the Radical Psychiatry movement, I was completely won over. I was already attuned to the...
The TA Tree: A Tool for Teaching TA to New Clients (By Catherine O’Brien, MFT, TAPI)
“There are two TA’s: the one we care trained to think in and use in understanding our clients, which is not simple, and the direct language we use in speaking to clients, which is simple.” - William Cornell How can I teach TA to new clients?? That is a challenge....
What Do You Like Most About TA?
Practitioners of Transactional Analysis were interviewed on their use of and appreciation for TA during the 2013 NATAA conference. NATAA proudly re-posts this wonderful video that features highlights from several of those interviews.
In Memory of Two Social Justice Heroes
Our tradition of dynamic social justice expands with NATAA’s Social Justice Committee inauguration. Social action traditions among transactional analysts began in 1961 with the San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars sponsorship of George, a six year old boy from...