Claude Steiner is a disciple and contemporary of Eric Berne, founder of Transactional Analysis (TA). Steiner has continued to lead the way since Berne's death in 1971. In this article, Steiner strives to make transactional analysis understandable to the layman. Therefore, he inserts short stories or scenarios in each chapter to simplify and convey Berne's theory. Transactional analysts say that people are capable of acting in three different ways: as parents, as adults, and as children. These three modes of behavior are called ego states, and each is important in its own right. In TA, the child is seen as the source of the best in human beings – the only possible source of creativity, leisure and procreation. When the individual is in the child ego state, he is not playing a role; he or she actually functions like a child. The Parent ego state is like a tape recorder. It is a collection of pre-recorded life codes, biases and prejudices. When a person is in the parent ego state, they think, feel, and behave like a parent or someone....