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.

© 2004-2011 Rob van Tol
Edinburgh Counselling Associates


Gloria: Three Approaches to Psychotherapy

The Gloria sessions are a remarkable set of videoed therapy sessions with leading theorists of the 1950s and 1960s: Carl Rogers (Person Centred), Fritz Peral (Gestalt), and Albert Ellis (rational emotive behavior therapy or REBT), each working with "Gloria". Filmed in 1965, the series of films has a long and sometimes controversial history.

They are a chance to see what these men, who you usually only meet on the pages of book, looked and sounded like, and to compare their styles. Who would you have preferred as your therapist?

Carl Rogers

Fritz Perals

Albert Ellis