About TA Student

This site is for Transactional Analysis trainees. I am myself in Advanced Training and want to bring together all the online resources that exist to support my own learning.

I also publish the The Psychotherapy Daily which brings together significant developments in psychotherapy published on Twitter in the past day.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, strokes or requests, please email me at:rob@vantol.co.uk or tweet to @talkingtherapy. 

This site uses a "cookie" from Google Analytics  to understand how the site is used. The information it gathers is anonymised. 

To defy the costs of producing this site, I am referrer for Amazon.co.uk, who give me a small percentage from their profits for each book you buy - this does not affect the price you pay for the books.

© 2004-2012 Rob van Tol
Edinburgh Counselling Associates

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French TA Site

See Analyse Transactionnelle.fr for an interesting TA resource in French.

This site contains resources for Transactional Analysis trainees and others interested in TA, particularly in the UK: 

for Transactional Analysis Students

These resources will hopefully help boost your studies and make the preparation of the complex assignments, transcripts and case studies a little easier.

My own current favourite books are:









And the and the most from these non-TA books:










And the biggest help for couples work from:

for Others interested in TA

The very best introduction to TA is attend a weekend  "TA 101" course, where you'll be introduced to fundamental ideas of TA by a qualified trainer in a psychologically safe and supportive environment. These are really enjoyable and give you a very sound grounding of the basics of TA.

You are strongly recommended to book yourself on to a course. Any of TA Training Centres listed here will run TA101 courses a few times a year.

You can also get a quickie introduction to some of basic ideas of Transactional Analysis by looking at some of the Introduction to TA videos. 

Alternatively, you might want to look at some of the wide range of TA Books available. The best current introductions at the moment are possibly: