By Claude Steiner PhD Fifty years ago Eric Berne invented Transactional Analysis (TA). From the beginning, TA, which is at once a theory of social and personal psychology, and a method of psychotherapy and education, ran into difficulties. This was because Berne expressed his theory not only in scientific terms, but also in terms of […]
2002
Apology; the Transactional Analysis of a fundamental exchange
By Claude Steiner PhD Abstract: One of the most important and difficult transactional options that are taught in Emotional Literacy Training is the Apology Transaction. A systematic analysis is presented of the elements constituting the complete apology transaction with examples. The article also serves as an example of what the author considers transactional analysis proper, […]
Radical Truth Telling; An Immodest Proposal
by Claude Steiner Phd The most significant political act in the Information Age is lying. Information has always been used as an avenue to power. Denial of information and deception are age old power plays. But at this time when information can reach every corner of the globe, instantaneously, when information is becoming the premier […]
