Fanița English (born October 22, 1916 – January 18, 2022) was a Romanian-born American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.
[3][1] In the USA she also studied at Columbia University, New York on mental development and child care.
[3] She later changed her practice from psychoanalysis to transactional analysis during the 1960s with the objective of providing better treatment to her patients.
[6] As Eric Berne's first student,[7] she put the four basic attitudes into a developmental psychological context and added the fifth variant, "I'm ok - you're ok - realistic".
She then lectured and gave workshops in Europe (Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Italy) until her retirement in 1993.
She connects deeply analytical methods with behavioural ones to, for example, explain the experience of concepts.
The concepts of substitute feelings, childhood adaptations, episcripts, and motivators are ones that she has particularly explored.
In 2010 English was awarded a gold medal by the European Association for Transactional Analysis for her outstanding contributions over forty years.