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Eric Bernes (1910-1970) was an author of Games People Play, and I’m ok, you’re ok. He was the first person to
publish the ‘self-help books’ and published this theory (Transactional analysis) in 1958. Eric Bernes came up with
the transactional analysis after influences from such theorists as fraud and one day treating a 35 year old lawyer,
who referred to himself as a’ little boy, not a lawyer’ but outside the office was a successful hardworking man.
Bernes later referred to this man by saying ‘am I talking to the lawyer, or little boy?’ he then referred to these
two states as ‘adult and child’ later observing the parent stage of the patient representing what he was taught
when he was younger.
Parent
‘Taught the concept’
‘Never talk to strangers’
‘Never steal’
‘Look before you cross’
These are examples of what you get
taught as a child by a parent, you
then adapt what you have learned
from your parent into everyday
situations. This is perceived
approximately in the first five years
of your life, they are external events that the brain has recorded.
Eric Bernes Transactional Analysis
Child
‘Felt the concept’
‘That cartoon was really
funny’
‘The clown was really scary’
‘The ice cream was tasty’
Stored in the child is the
emotions and feelings that
accompanied the internal events
associated with the external
events the child has perceived,
this is the way they felt at the
time which may impact the way
a person feels about something.
Adult
‘Learned the concept’ … Dr. Thomas Harris
‘I told you not to touch that hot
plate’
In this scenario, the adult was told
the message and understood it as
soon as the adult learned the
consequences from this action; this
is putting what you’ve been taught
into practise and learning why
you’ve been told. The adult
validates the information told by
the parent.