Note: In 2003 Dr Novellino received the Eric Berne memorial award which was handed to him by Dr Steiner as the Acting Chair of the EBMA Committee at a ceremony at the ITAA conference in Oaxaca Mexico. At that time in a conversation Dr, Steiner and Dr Novellino agreed to initiate a correspondence regarding the […]
February 2010
Transactional Analysis and Psychoanalysis: Writing Styles
Abstract The author compares the languages of transactional analysis and psychoanalysis and argues that in his break with psychoanalysis, Eric Berne took leave, primarily, of the linguistic and therefore conceptual style of psychoanalysis. He sought to write, speak, and think about observable phenomena with the use of verbs and concrete nouns instead of adjectives and […]
Forget the Unconscious; An Essay
by Claude Steiner PhD Often in discussing transactional analysis with fellow professionals I find that they express astonishment over our apparent rejection of “the unconscious.” Clearly, consciousness is only the tip of the mental iceberg. We have been accused of being over-simple but we are not so simple as to doubt that obvious fact. Let […]
