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An Introduction to Ego States - Counselling Connection

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You’ll regularly recieve powerful strategies for personal development, tips to improve the growth of your counselling practice, the latest industry news and much more. We’ll keep your information private and never sell, rent, trade or share it with any other organisation. And you can cancel anytime. Eric Berne, the pioneer of transactional analysis, made complex interpersonal transactions understandable when he recognised that the human personality is made up of three “ego states”. Each ego state is an entire system of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours from which we interact with one another. Parent, Adult and Child ego states and an interaction between them form the foundation of transactional analysis theory. Ego states are a consistent pattern of thinking, feeling and behaviour. Berne’s tripartite model is an explanation of three main events that happen to all of us – childhood, the development of rational, logical thinking and exposure to parental or significant others’ influence.

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