This article describes the authors' experiences as transactional analysis trainers and learners in the unique context created by India's social, cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic diversity and how this context impacts the multiple roles of trainers and learners.

The author offers some reflections in response to James B. Smith's article “Licensing of Psychotherapists in the United States: Evidence of Societal Regression?” She considers how checks and balances in the form of licensing, registration, and/or membership in professional organizations to a great extent keep structures, procedures, and ethics codes intact. If the norms and procedures to earn these memberships are too rigid, they are oppressive and regressive; if they are too flexible, they are of no use. The author considers how to strike a balance between these extremes.