The Free Child and other Playmates

In Germany we have a saying, that loosely translates into this: As you shout into the woods, so it echoes out. It means for communication that for every action there will be a reaction. We do not communicate in a vacuum.

In the 1950s the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne created a highly influential model that helps explain the impact of personality shares in the context of communication. He called that model transactional analysis. The basic question of communication is what happens when two people interact verbally?