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Tangential TransactionsTransactional Analysis
Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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Tangential Transactions
• A tangential transaction
is one in which the
stimulus and response
address different issues,
or address the same
issue from different
perspectives.
Tangential Transactions
• For example, a therapist
asks a group member:
“How do you feel?”. She
replies: “ Well, when we
spoke about this in the
group yesterday, I felt
angry”.
Tangential Transactions
• With her response, she
addresses the issue of
how she feels, but from
the perspective of
yesterday instead of
today.
Tangential Transactions
• At a wage negotiation, a
union representative
asks: “ What do you want
from out side so we can
conclude this
agreement?”
Tangential Transactions
• The personnel manager
answers: “ We are not at all
satisfied with the
conditions you have
proposed so fare”. Here,
the issue has been shifted
from wanting to feeling
satisfied with.
Tangential Transactions
• Every day conversations
are full of tangential
transactions. When
people are in situations
they perceive as stressful,
they are even more likely
to redefine in this way.
Tangential Transactions
• This is not surprising,
because in stressful
situations, people are
likely to begin perceiving
threats to their frame of
reference.
Tangential Transactions
• The cover purpose of
going on a tangent is to
divert the other person
away from the issue
which constitutes the
threat.
Tangential Transactions
• The person who initiates
the tangential
transactions will not be
consciously aware she is.
doing so.
Tangential Transactions
• Often, the other person
will follow the tangent,
rather than sticking the
original topic. He may
even go off on a further
tangent of his own.
Tangential Transactions
• When people get into a
exchange of tangential
transactions, they are
likely to have an
uncomfortable sense
that their conversation is
getting nowhere.
Tangential Transactions
• When people get into a
exchange of tangential
transactions, they are likely
to have an uncomfortable
sense that their
conversation is getting
nowhere or going around in
circles.
Tangential Transactions
• On the psychological
level, that is exactly what
is intended.
Conversations like these
can go on for a long time.
Tangential Transactions
• The participants may feel
they have been working
hard, and end up feeling
drained. By the close of their
discussion, they may have
never gotten back to the
original issue they have
intended to address.
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