


Time & Location
12 Sept 2026, 09:30 – 17:30
Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institut, 2 Castle Quay, Nottingham NG7 1FW, UK
About the event
Booking details:
https://www.spti.net/courses/mtap/
A 4 year MSc training programme.
At SPTI, we offer a training which adheres to Eric Berne’s integrative approach and consequently we explore a variety of TA schools. Our course honours TA’s psychoanalytic roots and holds its object relations and model of ego states and script as central to practice. Alongside a clear recognition of the impact of the social, cultural, political and historical contexts in which script develops.
Underpinning the course are the humanistic values upon which Transactional Analysis is based. These include a belief that human beings are inherently relational, co-operative, growth-seeking and with a natural aspiration towards autonomy. There is also an emphasis throughout on self-responsibility and the possibility of change. We place particular emphasis on those parts of TA theory which draw upon, and bear witness to, the value Berne placed on working with unconscious processes which is termed Relational Transactional Analysis.
TA’s…