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...[1]

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. Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 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! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 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)