1st Edition

Conceptualizing Ego States in Transactional Analysis Three Systems in Interaction

By José Grégoire Copyright 2025
204 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Within this book, Grégoire reviews and extends the founding concepts of ego states in Transactional Analysis, starting with Eric Berne’s foundational thinking about ego states and then examining and integrating the evolution of subsequent models and thinking. The ego state theory describes extensive aspects of human existence, exploring phenomena belonging to very diverse dimensions, for... Read more

Foreword  1. Three perspectives on ego states  2. Ego states as personality systems  3. What is the purpose of each system?  4. Growth and personal development  5. The Child: The system that experiences life  6. The Parent: The system that internalizes  7. The Adult: The system that integrates reality  8. From disjunction to integration  9. Emotions  10. The sense of Self  11. Integration and relationships  12. Co-creativity and Relationships  13. Communication within the relationship  14. The practitioner and the interaction perspective  Conclusion  Afterword: Ego states in transactional analysis

Biography

José Grégoire is a psychotherapist, an EATA Certified Clinical Transactional Analyst and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Besides his work as a therapist, teacher, supervisor in TA and translator of the French TA review Actualités en Analyse Transactionnelle, he has worked in an interdisciplinary therapeutic team for therapy of persons wanting to cure addictions.