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The Parent, The Adult and The Child - A Discussion of Transactional Analysis

Not Overthinking

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A Parent Parent Exchange, a Parent Parent Transaction

Thomas harris gy wrote the book, he was on a greyhound. He noticed that two kind of, you know, oldish ladies were having an exchange. And this is a parent parent interaction, a apparent parent transaction. So they're both speaking basically their childhood selves,. Or rather, theyre speaking from the recordings that their childhood selves received - oh, god, busses are never on time. But that doesn't mean that every feeling you have comes directly from recording. In this case, i think what's actually going on is that there's lots of recording of a sort of parent kind of admonishing a the child.

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