WHAT IS TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS (TA)? Transactional analysis is a modern psychotherapeutic direction, it is also a theory of personality and a theory of communication. Its founder is the American psychiatrist and psychotherapist Eric Berne (1910-1970). The name transactional analysis comes from the concept of transaction – that is, the exchange of messages between two people. Since a transaction is a unit of communication, transactional analysis is actually an analysis of comm