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The article presents the use of transactional analysis as a research method to interpret a dramatic text. The author’s objective was to describe the relationships between the characters and to explain the reasons for their behavior using transactional analysis. The drama of an Austrian play wright Herbert Berger When a little bird falls out of the nest was used to show, how useful TA can be in literary studies. A psychological game identified in the text was analyzed with regard to its constitutive elements.