Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action

About Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1940. He received his secondary education at Glasgow Academy and went on to study at Pembroke College Oxford. Graduating in 1961 he worked for five years in the scientific Civil Service in Edinburgh. In 1966 he emigrated to England to take up a Research Fellowship at Nottingham University. On conclusion of his research contract he stayed on at Nottingham as a lecturer gaining his PhD degree in 1970. Ians first contact with psychotherapy was as a client. While continuing his own personal therapy he developed a growing interest in the theory and method of psychotherapy generally and transactional analysis in particular. He entered formal TA training in 1979 and gained accreditation as a TA practitioner in 1984. For several years Ian followed two parallel careers as lecturer and as psychotherapist. In the end psychotherapy won the day: in 1989 Ian resigned his university lectureship to pursue a full-time career as a TA psychotherapist writer and trainer. Ian is the author with co-author Vann Joines of the basic text on transactional analysis TA Today. First published in 1987 the book has been translated into fifteen languages and is widely regarded as the world-standard introduction to its subject. Its second edition appeared in 2012. Ian is Co-Director of The Berne Institute a TA training centre which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2013. Ian lives in a small village in the backwoods of Leicestershire together with his wife and three cats. His leisure interests include Morris dancing cycling fitness activities generally and the appreciation of real ale.