What do U say after u say Hello?

Understanding the working of our mind has been one of the oldest and long running human pursuit. Religions and scriptures although have given paramount prominence to mind and its roles in shaping personal and social life, they do not have any concrete suggestions and steps to understand it, at least from common man's perspectives. For long, most of human experiences and emotional responses were explained by attributing them to external causes or celestial sources. With the advent of Sigmund Freud, a first attempt was made to understand and explain human mind, its functions and some of human behaviour in a scientific manner. With the introduction of notions such as conscious, unconscious mind, ego, id, superego, Sigmund Freud to certain extent succeeded in unravelling the mystery of mind. For instance, dreams are nothing but the release of emotions during sleep suppressed by the conscious mind while we are awake. We get dreams during sleep because unconscious mind takes over the charge from conscious mind and lets mind to express itself freely without any inhibitions. His Interpretation of dreams published during 1901 remained a great reference for psychologists around the world for many decades. Freud was followed by greats such as Carl Jung. However, most of the insights obtained by the pioneering psychologists were expressed in very technical language making it impossible for common man to read and benefit from those findings.

Advent of simple Tools

For such people came a tool for understanding mind, called transaction analysis. The originator of this simple but very practical tool was Eric Berne. His book " What do you say after you say Hello" was a landmark contribution in helping people understand the working of mind and explain their behaviors.