What is transactional analysis?

It is a way of looking at what goes on inside and between people.
It looks at the strokes (marks of recognition) which we give each other - anyone who has ever been ignored knows the truth of Eric Berne's saying that without strokes, we shrivel and die.

According to Berne, a Canadian doctor who wrote about analysing the transactions (exchange of strokes) between people, people script themselves to behave in predictable ways, in accordance with the instructions they learned from observing and listening to their parents.

Berne also listed the six ways that people structure their time,:

Withdrawal

Rituals
Activity
Pastimes
Games
Intimacy

Transactional analysis would maintain:

that People are basically OK (even if their behaviour doesn't always show this);
that People can think (even if they do not always choose to do so)
that People make decisions that they can change later (even if they decide not to do so)

Transactional analysis would be a means of understanding something of where unacceptable behaviour might come from, and could give insight into why not all peace overtures have the desired effect.

TAI North and TAI East.