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)
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
A Warm Fuzzy Tale
A Warm Fuzzy Tale, by Claude Steiner ONCE UPON A TIME, A LONG TIME AGO, THERE LIVED TWO HAPPY PEOPLE CALLED TIM AND MAGGIE WITH THEIR TWO CHILDREN, JOHN AND LUCY. TO UNDERSTAND HOW HAPPY THEY WERE YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW THINGS WERE IN THOSE DAYS.
Interview: On the Early Years of Transactional Analysis. Eric Berne and his disciple Claude Steiner
Claude Steiner (Berkeley/U.S.A.) interviewed by Dr. Anne Kohlhaas-Reith (Waldkirch/Germany) Contents Preface On Claude’s Relationship with Eric On Eric’s Views on Therapy On Eric’s Therapeutic Method On Eric’s Intellectual Attitudes and Similarities with Claude On Eric’s and Claude’s Relationship to the T.A. Organization On Strokes On Eric’s and Claude’s Intellectual Relationship On T.A. Membership and Exams […]
Stroke-Centered Transactional Analysis
By the time he finished Games People Play, Eric Berne’s transactional analysis theory had almost ten years to differentiate itself from psychoanalytic thinking and to mature in its own right. In the Introduction to that book, Berne laid out his stroke theory and made it clear that he considered strokes to be the fundamental motive […]
Strokes
Strokes are interpersonal units of recognition. They can be positive and feel good or negative and feel bad. They can be verbal or physical. Strokes are essential for physical and emotional health and survival. Links within this web site that deal with the stroke concept Papers: “Core Concepts of a Stroke Centered Transactional Analysis” “The […]
The Meming of Love; Invention of the Human Heart
Keynote lecture at the 3rd Adolescence Health Conference at the Royal College of Physicians in London, October 2000. By Claude Steiner PhD
