Introduction to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis for the Uninitiated. The Main Book on Transactional Analysis

This book is the best place to start one’s acquaintance with psychiatry and psychology. In the "Introduction," Eric Berne explains in simple and extremely clear language: how the human psyche is structured, what influences its formation, the stages of development that an infant goes through and how they subsequently reflect on his life, what dreams and neuroses are, what the hidden causes of alcoholism, tendencies to promiscuous relationships, prolonged depression, and much more are. Berne's work is still rightly considered one of the most comprehensive and engaging textbooks on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. This is a book to which one wants to return again and again, expanding their worldview and diving into the fascinating world of the human psyche.