What is "transactions"

Usage examples of "transactions".

The task at hand is how to start a collection of recordings which play ok outcomes to transactions, successes in terms of correct probability estimating, successes in terms of integrated actions which make sense, which are programmed by the Adult, and not by the Parent or Child, successes based on an ethic which can be supported rationally.

Thus, beliefs such as 'white skins are better than black skins', 'right-handedness is better than left-handedness', and 'cops are bad' are externalized in transactions on the basis of prejudgement, before reality data (Adult) is applied to them.

Such a person does not have available to his current transactions any tapes which supply data having to do with social control, appropriate 'shoulds' and 'should nots', cultural norms, or what, in one sense, may be referred to as conscience.

Sullivan, whose central contribution to psychoanalytic thought was the concept of 'interpersonal relationships', or transactions, claimed that the child built his self-estimate totally on the appraisal of others, what he called 'reflected appraisals'.

Thus we may say that complementary Child-Child transactions exist with the permission and supervision of the Adult.

When the Adult is not around, the Child gets snarled up in crossed transactions, which will be described later in this chapter.

These cross transactions can set off a whole series of noisy exchanges which end up with a bang somewhere in the purple outer reaches of 'So's your old man!

Then the Adult is prepared to take over transactions with a question such as, 'What's important here?

Although its rigidity was sometimes oppressive and produced considerable not ok feelings in her Child, her Parent nonetheless continued to be a constant source of data in all her transactions in the present.

The boy's Parent was so disintegrated and fragmented and inconsistent that it did not come through in present transactions as a controlling or modifying influence over his impulsive, Child-dominated behaviour.

The other thirty-one couples report good transactions in their marriages, in which each partner is now finding the excitement of new goals, the relative absence of old destructive games, and the achievement of intimacy.

Yet, inadequate understanding by the parents of the actions, or transactions, which produced feelings frequently left the situation unchanged.

Our emphasis in Transactional Analysis is on what the parents can achieve so that the nature of the transactions between parent and child will change.

This means the whole idea can become Parent, impairing its usefulness as a tool in producing Adult-Adult transactions in the home.

The early school years can be the beginning of a pattern of recurring testing transactions which, as he feels it, underline the reality of his not ok position with associated feelings of futility and despair.