Abstract
Transactional analysis is the method of examining a transaction wherein, “I do something to you and you do something back” and determining which part of the multi-natured individual is “coming on.”
Transactional analysis is the method of systematizing the information derived from analyzing transactions in words which have the same meaning, by definition, for everyone who is using them. This language is clearly one of the most important developments of the system. Agreement on the meanings of words plus agreement on what to examine are the two keys which have unlocked the door to the “mysteries of why people do as they do.”