Editing Transactional analysis (section)

==In popular culture==
{{In popular culture|section|date=March 2024}}
[[Thomas Anthony Harris|Thomas Harris]]'s successful popular work from the late 1960s, ''I'm OK, You're OK'', is largely based on transactional analysis.  A fundamental divergence, however, between Harris and Berne is that Berne postulates that everyone starts life in the "I'm OK" position, whereas Harris believes that life starts out "I'm not OK, you're OK".<ref name="T. A. Harris okay page 43">Harris, ''I'm OK, You're OK'', page 42.</ref>

[[New Age]] author [[James Redfield]] has acknowledged<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peters |first=Kathryn M. |date=January 2000 |title=A Conversation with James Redfield |url=http://www.inlightimes.com/archives/2000/01/redfield.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608214304/http://www.inlightimes.com/archives/2000/01/redfield.htm |archive-date=June 8, 2008 |work=In Light Times |access-date=13 February 2019}}</ref> Harris and Berne as important influences in his best-seller ''[[The Celestine Prophecy]]'' (1993). The protagonists in the novel survive by striving (and succeeding) in escaping from "control dramas" that resemble the games of TA.

Singer/songwriter [[Warren Zevon]] mentions transactional analysis in his 1980 song "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" from the album ''[[Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School]]''.

Singer-songwriter [[Joe South]]'s 1968 song, "[[Games People Play (Joe South song)|Games People Play]]", was based directly on transactional-analytic concepts and Berne's [[Games People Play (book)|book of the same name]].

TA makes an appearance in [[Antonio Campos (director)|Antonio Campos']] 2016 biographical drama ''[[Christine (2016 film)|Christine]]'', a film covering the events that led TV journalist [[Christine Chubbuck]] to die by suicide on TV. She is brought to a transactional analysis therapy session by a colleague, where they introduce her to the "Yes, But..." technique.

Singer [[John Denver]] references transactional analysis in his autobiography. His wife at the time, Annie Denver, was getting into the movement. John says he tried it but found it wanting.<ref> Denver, John (1994). ''Take Me Home, An Autobiography'', page 152. Rocky Mountain Merchandise, LLC. ISBN 1-4959-5876-0.</ref>

Eric Berne's ''Games People Play'' was featured prominently on an episode of ''[[Mad Men]]''. The book was seen in Season 4, Episode 11, titled "Chinese Wall".  The approximate time period for this episode is September 1965. By late September 1965, ''Games People Play'' had been on the ''New York Times'' non-fiction bestseller list for nine weeks already.