Transactional Analysis Student

About TA Student

This site contains resources primarily aimed at Transactional Analysis trainees. I am myself in Advanced Training and wanted 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.

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

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New ITAA site

The ITAA (International Transactional Analysis Association) has lunched a new improved website with a new URL.

Though the old ITAA site is still live too, for the moment.

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: