 Hello and welcome to MIP TV and with me is Bob Cook and he's going to be reviewing a book today. It's number 11, up to number 11, I can't believe it. And it's written by someone you know and it's the late Claude Steiner and it is the scripts that people live. And I know it's a particular favourite of yours, Bob. Yes, Good People Live was one of the seminal books in the Heritage of Transaction Analysis. It came out in 1974 and Claude Steiner was really the prodigal son of Eric Byrne, in the sense that he was probably his earnest disciple. He always, until his death in fact, which wasn't long ago, about two months ago, he was a devotee of Eric Byrne and sadly missed, but he wrote this very significant book in 1974 about scripts people live and scripts in TA are, you know, the idea that we created a life plan early in history with the beginning middle end and we literally play that life script out and we look for people to fit into our life script and our unconscious life plan in terms of reference. And it's a very important TA concept. Yeah, and scripts is, as you say, it really is one of the foundation stones, isn't it, of TA? And it sounds like Claude Steiner wrote a very detailed account of it. Would he say it was a development on Byrne's work? He said he was a prodigal son. Yeah, you see, yes and no. I mean Eric Byrne talked about winners, losers, scripts. The idea, of course, that we, as I've just said, we create our own destiny in terms of winning and losing. He also talked about scripts in terms of, you know, Greek myths that fitted them into that. Eric Byrne was a real devout of scripts. And he created a whole idea that we need to analyse our scripts in terms of taking charge of our scripts and in fact changing them and putting a new, you know, a new whole process together. Now Claude Steiner took that a bit further and talked about how we analyse our scripts and we put our scripts down into what he called a grid, a script matrix. And we can look at the influences from the significant others, parents, you know, mother, father, etc. and how it influences the child and how the child makes early decisions that can play down in life. And his script matrix became very well known for students of TA to use in terms of script analysis. Also, you know, he did go a bit further because he coined some, you know, different types of scripts. Mindless scripts, loveless scripts. And he talked about how they got played out, not only in life but in the clinical treatment room. So it really sounds like a book to have for newer ideas in TA maybe. And a wider view of the work of Byrne developing on the work of Byrne's ideas of scripts. Absolutely. And he was a radical psychologist. So he did very much talk about scripts in the terms of the revolutionary ideas of the 1970s. So it was a developmental, yeah, you're right, a development of some of the ideas of script by Byrne. What I like particularly about this, though, it is very accessible book, very easily written, very easy to understand and a lot of humor in the book. Remember, Claude Steiner was famous for the book, Warm Fuzzies and Cold Prickly, you know, hot strokes and cold strokes. It's a very easy book to read in many ways. But in some ways was the academic textbooks, but Claude was a much more accessible book. Especially if people don't know much about the idea of scripts and students who want to develop more ideas on scripts. Yeah, so you mentioned students there, Bob. So it's, again, another educational book, something that will wider the learning, take it and take it maybe into a newer dimension, bring it up to date. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, many books followed, you know, and authors in terms of ideas of script. I mean, Richard Erskine, who we talked about earlier in our series here, he wrote and edited a book in, you know, 2016. So that's only last year called Transaction Analysis and Contemporary Psychotherapy, where he got a lot of really learned and up to date people talk about scripts. However, if you want to go back to the early heritage of transaction analysis, this is the seminal book. So an all round book to have, one to have in the library, whether you're a student or a practitioner or by the sound of it, someone who's just interested. So maybe you're in another modality, but you want to taste that into the world of transaction analysis. So not getting bogged down with the heavy duty, the wordage or the academic baggage, but an easy read to gently get you in to maybe another modality. So if you worry one thing, if you go to a lot of TA students and many, many people have qualified and, you know, I'm 30 years on, for example, they usually have this in their bookshelf, a seminal book. Right. It's a craftsperson's book, Bob. Yeah, really wonderful read. I really recommend it. So we'll put a link up at the end of this video so you can see it. And we'll also put a link in the description bar below if you want to buy it just just like the usual disclaimer. We know it's not paid products. We're not being paid by the publisher or the late Claude Stein as I stated anyway. This is just Bob sharing his love of literature. And as I will put the link in the link bar below. So Bob Cook, thank you very much. Thank you very much Roy.