Talk:Transactional Analysis

Pseudoscience
"TA tends to reject the disease model of mental illness, viewing mental illnesses as life scripts one picks up from early childhood conditioning rather than as diseases; said mental illnesses can be cured by recognizing the script and the conditioning that led to it, and making a conscious decision to stop 'living' that script. The basic concept of TA is each person has three different aspects to their personality..." This sounds like patent pseudoscience to me. I'll hold off on it pending feedback, but I think this article should be placed under category:pseudoscience. 02:08, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, should be added. Secret Squirrel (talk) 02:32, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I see you've done so. Thanks Squirrel!   03:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

References?
This would be a good start. I note that the Wikipedia article doesn't actually mention its effectiveness at all - David Gerard (talk) 21:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Appears to beat out Psychoanalytics according to this meta-analysis. The big problem being that the control group and the experimental group were assessed by different groups with different motivations and possibly different methodologies.  As far from double-blind as you can get.  And The journal your link mentions is pretty sparse on quantitative or critical analyses of therapeutic quality.  Hard to make a fair judgement from surface-level available material.   Ikanreed (talk) 21:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC)