Hamed Vaheb

This book can serve as a fascinating introduction to Transactional Analysis! It consists of 2 major parts: 1) In the first part it addresses the great impact of our childhood experiences and how they affect our personality. Considering this importance, it states that children undergo 4 positions that determine a significant amount of our current behaviors. However, they are not irreversible and one might be able to change his predetermined position. 2) Then it introduces a simple and fathomable decomposition of psyche into 3 characters: Parent, Kid & Adult in which each character has its own characteristics. These characteristics can be identified in our daily conversations, gestures and words. Since in different scenarios one of these characters may become the prevailing one, by becoming conscious of which character is leading the personality in certain moments, not only will we be able to reflect our own personality and adjust it, but also we will somehow be capable of reflecting that of others and act in accordance with it. In conclusion, it is a self-help book and educational book at the same time unlike the self-help books that try to convey positive thinking and motivational beliefs that are unconvincing to relate to. However, the downside of this book is that some chapters must be skipped since they do not follow the whole point of this book and also, since it is old, it should have been revised and updated but I didn't notice anyone doing that.