ABSTRACT
In transactional analysis, Jean Illsley Clarke will be a familiar name; in many respects she is the elder in educational Transactional Analysis (TA), being one of the first and now longest serving trainer and practitioner in the field. Jean shares some of the significant periods in the history of the field, her most useful TA models and general reflections on being involved in educational TA for quite some time. The story begins with a part about the psychological landscape at the time, followed by her part in the early history of education in the international transactional analysis community. She is an educator, and she knows that the new theories needed to be examined and explored by educators as well as by therapists. She has a strong belief that every educator needs to know about several psychological theories, and to be thoroughly grounded in one.
