Q: How do I best to deal with people who power play or lie? Respond with my own truth? If they are in a more powerful position than I am (example: at work) this might not go over very well. A: Truthfulness is an essential aspect of emotional literacy. One cannot develop an emotionally literate […]
Claude Steiner
Claude Steiner, Ph.D., ITAA Teaching Member, is a clinical psychologist and one of the founding members, with Eric Berne, of the ITAA. He lives with his wife and editor, Jude Steiner-Hall, alternately between Berkeley and Ukiah, California. He has developed a stroke-centered approach to transactional analysis and is the leader of an emerging emotional literacy training movement centered in Europe. The author of eight books, including Scripts People Live, The Other Side of Power, and Emotional Literacy: Intelligence with a Heart, he is finishing his book Confessions of a Psycho-Mechanic; my long life of love sex and psychotherapy in five continents and has started writing his next book, The Heart of the matter; Love, Information and transactional Analysis. He can be reached through e-mail at csteiner@igc.org or at www.claudesteiner.com/strokes.htm
Learning Emotional Literacy; a new language of the emotions
Learning Emotional Literacy is like learning a new language. As in the case of languages, there is an optimal window of opportunity to learn emotional literacy in childhood and as in the case of languages it can be learned with increasing difficulty in maturity. In fact, learning emotional literacy is like learning a dialect of […]
Report from Central America; Following the US Footprint Across Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua (1986)
by Claude M. Steiner For six weeks, Charles Rappleye, a Los Angeles reporter, 30 years old and myself, age 51 at the time, traveled, with journalists credentials by car from California to Nicaragua to try to get an impression, on the ground, of US influence along the 4000 miles between Los Angeles and Managua.
