Pretty pleasent psych appt

I had my psychiatrist appointment today. Its usually pretty routine. He is at the end of his residency and I'll see him one more time before I get a new guy in July. The thing that was nice about this appointment is my Doc told me he'd never heard of transactional analysis I told him about it. After I talked about it he checked out an article, then books, and he has now gone to seminars and his concluding thesis of his residency was "Transactions, Games and Scripts". He thanked me for introducing him to TA and told me I'm probably the biggest influence on how he is going to practice of any patient he's had. It was kind of nice.

 

He's at the end of his residency and hasn't run across TA? We didn't get into it much in Abnormal but did in Cognition for whatever reason. He must have majored in sociology or something.

 

Mariposa its been my experience that psychiatrists don't get much exposure to psychotherapies other than CBT these days. That could just be my area, we have two medical schools but they have a combined psychiatric residency program so 90% of the psychiatrists I've ever dealt with were from the same curriculum. I just checked what his undergrad degree was in, theology and ancient languages is what it says on a biography page I found, not a common MD undergrad degree.

A lot of people find TA kind of trite on first glance because a lot of their core literature used 'hip' lingo from the early to mid seventies.