Fanitas personal background


• Fanita English was born in Romania

• She spent her childhood and youth in Istanbul

• Studies of psychology in Paris

• Flight from France over several stops, finally into the USA

• Education in psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy (by Fritz Perls) and Transactional Analysis (by Eric Berne and David Kupfer)font>

• Foundation of the Eastern Institute for TA and Gestalt in Philadelphia

• Therapist for group dynamics, group psychotherapy and child psychotherapy at several universities

• Since 1973 she offers training courses for TA in Germany

• Fanita English is Teaching Member and Trustee of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA)font>

• Today she lives in San Mateo/ California, USA