As a thought experiment, if a city agency is a superorganism, and I apply #TransactionalAnalysis to my attempts at conversation with this creature, would I understand it better? Could I prove some sort of synchronous state with the entity? Would I learn to ride it like a giant sandworm?

Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates the rescuer-victim relationship model.

https://www.google.com/doodles/valentines-day-2023

#relationships #HumanBehavior #TransactionalAnalysis #TA #Psychology

there is no psychology without social psychology, no possible inquiry into pure, biological instincts (or any other “natural” powers) which does not also consider both the social and environmental context of the phenomena studied and the inquiry’s own context. Instincts/impulses are interactive phenomena-in-environment, and must be appreciated as transactions (HNC, MW14: 66).
#dewey #instinct #socialpsychology #impulses #interaction #transactionalanalysis
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey/#Inst

@johngiordano I have to admit I haven't read that much #Dewey. I have gotten my learnings about #Pragmatism from #WiliamJames.
Transnationalism out me in mind of the #TransactionalAnalysis School of #psychology That came about during the 60s and 70s. So, I am learning about Dewey as I go along

Oh, hey, the 40th novelette continues: goals cross purposes, glass is cleared away, and a rainy afternoon is captured in a pot: http://thecityofroses.com/story/DirtyWhiteNoiseActIII #UrbanFantasy #CityOfRoses #TransactionalAnalysis #webserial #PDX

#TransactionalAnalysis should be in everybody’s toolbox, for me is seems to naturally lead to the traumatised inner child and routes to healing by making space to hear how the child feels and give them love.
My critical adult wants to review and edit that sentence!
#HarmReduction #SubstanceUse
#Therapy

Apparently the etiquette is to write an #introductions, but hard to do when you are shy of social media which I abandoned some while ago with all the hate there. So keen to give this fedi thing a go.

An older part-time student, part-time retired, part-time project-manager, amateur coder. And belatedly getting fit.

So hashtags:

#Swift, #Obsidian
#openwaterswimming, #Zwift, #Wahoo, #CouchTo5k
#TransactionalAnalysis, #Berne, #meditation