Insights into Conflicts and Harmony in Doctor Patient Relationship through Transactional Analysis

ABSTRACT

Doctor Patient Relationship (DPR) in India seems to be deteriorating. Remedial measures are incoherent compared to the multitude of factors associated. Transactional Analysis (TA) is a Social Psychology Theory and practice appropriate to analyse changing paradigms of DPR. TA shows that traditional stable DPR model was symbiosis inappropriate for modern era. Current DPR model is game relationship occurring due to failed attempts at symbiosis. Contractual relationship is a stable model of DPR appropriate for modern era and medical fraternity shall work towards bringing a paradigm shift in a coherent manner. TA may be one of the systems that offers models and tools useful for a paradigm shift