I What is it about Eric Berne’s transactional analysis that so attracts people? From decades of traveling and teaching transactional analysis (in twenty five countries on five continents) Wherever I go, whenever I can, in hundreds of informal interviews over the years, I have asked the question: “What attracts you to transactional analysis?” From people’s […]
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
THE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS CORROBORATION RESEARCH PROJECT
By Claude Steiner PhD TM , VP Research and Innovation. Introduction Transactional Analysis needs to be recognized by the professional and academic community. Barring another sensational Transactional Analysis bestseller, such recognition can only come from academic and research-based information. I have undertaken to explore the behavioral science literature in search for substantial theoretical streams as […]
Steiner – Novellino letters
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 […]
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 […]
