The Formation and Development of Transactional Analysis in Russia in the 1990s and 2000s

Abstract

This article describes the development of Transactional Analysis in Russia in the 1990s, when Tom Frazier brought the book “Transactional Analysis Today” by Ian Stewart and Vann Joins and asked Dmitry Kasyanov to translate it into Russian. The authors of the article talk about the first trainers and the first educational events on Transactional Analysis in Russia, in which many world-famous transactional analysts took part: in the 1990s, Claude Steiner, Stephen Karpman, Marilyn Zalcman, Petrushka Clarkson, John Clark, John Parr and others came to Russia. The article also talks about the first international educational programs of Transactional Analysis in Russia (“Transactional Analysis in the Clinical Field” and “Transactional Analysis in Education”), about the creation of national associations of Transactional Analysis — Saint-Petersburg Association of TA (SOTA) and Ryazan Association of TA (RATA). The authors describe the history of TA in Russia until 2015, when, with the support of EATA, for the first time in Russia and in Eastern Europe, the first International exam for obtaining the CTA status was held on the initiative of Elena Soboleva, the delegate from Russia to the EATA Council.