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 […]
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 […]
Principles of Radical Psychiatry (1985 revision)
by Claude Steiner Radical Psychiatry holds that all functional psychiatric difficulties are forms of alienation resulting from the mystified oppression of people who are isolated from each other. People’s alienation is the result of power abuse and is therefore a political matter. Any person in the practice of psychiatry (soul healing) becomes involved in the personal politics of those […]
Radical Psychiatry Manifesto
1969 Radical Psychiatry Manifesto, by Claude Steiner This document was written on the occasion of the 1969 American Psychiatric Association conference in San Francisco. It was a reaction to psychiatric practices of that time especially the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness and pro government intervention in draft resistance. (see also Principles of Radical Psychiatry)
