Transactional Analysis Ego States

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Start to learn TA and get your first certification - online: http://ta-course.com/ • Steffen Raebricht from Germany describes the basics of Transactional Analysis • • In this video we will study ego-state theory. They are one of the key concepts in transactional analysis. With ego-states you will learn to understand yourself and others much better. • Maybe you have been in this situation: You are in a meeting at your work and you are making suggestions for the office christmas party. One of your co-workers answers all suggestions with „Yes, but.“ - Yes, but too expensive. Yes, but too much work. Yes, but, Yes, but Yes, but... • After the third „Yes, but“ you suddenly realize that you have gotten angry. • Maybe you still managed to find a suitable suggestion. Now you are discussing in a mature way how to organize this christmas party. Your are brainstorming different opportunities and naming and delegating tasks. • After the meeting you present your ideas to your boss. For some reason he is not pleased and get's upset. You realize that you are angry or maybe even a bit bitter inside. • You may agree if I say that in all these situations you have acted differently. But You also thought differently and felt differently. Transactional analysis defines the complexity of thinking, feeling and behaving as an ego-state. There are three ego-states. • Parent ego-state. Adult ego-state. And child ego-state. • In the paent ego-state you are thinking, acting and feeling like your attachment figures. If you are in the adult ego-state you act logical, appropriate and related to the present. If you are in the child ego-state you think, feel and act like you were as a child. All three ego-states are defined as the structural model of ego-states in TA. • Each ego-state is the combination of thinking, feeling and behaviour. • In the upcoming examples we will be mainly focusing on the behaviour. • You are out shopping and you see this amazing jacket. Excited you try it on. It fits perfectly and you would really love to have it. You may be in the child ego-state. From this ego-state our needs are mostly coming. • You look at the price tag and see: 1199 Dollars. Oh no! Disappointed you talk to yourself in a parental voice: „This jacket is a total scam. Can you believe it? What are they thinking they are? This jacket is not even waterproof.“ • At the same time you feel the strong urge to buy the jacket nevertheless. You are back in child ego-state. • You start evaluating the situation and you realize that you can not afford this jacket right now. You switched into adult ego-state. • the child ego-state you think, feel and act like you were as a child. All three ego-states are defined as the structural model of ego-states in TA. • Each ego-state is the combination of thinking, feeling and behaviour. • In the upcoming examples we will be mainly focusing on the behaviour. • You are out shopping and you see this amazing jacket. Excited you try it on. It fits perfectly and you would really love to have it. You may be in the child ego-state. From this ego-state our needs are mostly coming. • You look at the price tag and see: 1199 Dollars. Oh no! Disappointed you talk to yourself in a parental voice: „This jacket is a total scam. Can you believe it? What are they thinking they are? This jacket is not even waterproof.“ • At the same time you feel the strong urge to buy the jacket nevertheless. You are back in child ego-state. • You start evaluating the situation and you realize that you can not afford this jacket right now. You switched into adult ego-state. • The parent ego-state is the part that assesses and judges. The moral part. The adult ego-state reacts to the present – rational and logical. The child ego-state is the part where needs are created and where childlike strategies are saved to fulfill the needs. • For a healthy and balanced personality all three ego-states are important. The parent ego-state structures our environment and helps other people. The adult ego-state reacts to the present, being rational and logical. The child ego-state contains your spontaneity and creativity. • An ego-state is the combination of behaviour, thoughts and feelings.. They explain how you act, think and feel in a situation. It is not „your inner child“ that wants to have fun and play – it is you who wants to have fun and play. Just like you did as a child. • This model of the ego-states is called the structural model. It focuses on what you think and feel. You can picture the ego-states in the structural model as your blueprint. It saves your systems for thinking, feeling and behaving and you can choose to act with one of those patterns. • In the next video we will discuss the functional model. It was not created to explain the content of the ego-states. It explains how it looks like when someone acts according to the ego-state patterns. It explains how the ego-states are expressed.

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