Claude Steiner, PhD Abstract: Transactional Analysis as developed by Eric Berne was a visionary theory which, in addition to providing a highly effective approach to psychotherapy also anticipated the theoretical, psychological and psychotherapeutic issues that would be of importance in the Information Age.
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
Dear Eric I
I wrote this letter immediately after attending the ITAA, EATA conference in Zurich August 1998. The letter created quite a stir:
Dear Eric II
Dear Eric: It has been seven years since 1998, when your tribe met in large numbers in Zurich and I was moved to write you an open letter bemoaning the fact that so very few presentations seemed to have a transactional analysis focus and asked: “Where is the TA?”
STROKES, THE STROKE ECONOMY AND OPENING THE HEART
Strokes: Eric Berne coined the term “stroke” to denote a unit of human recognition. In so doing he made it possible to discuss the exchange of affection or love in fine, textured detail.
A Compilation of Transactional Analysis Core Concepts. (English text)
Compiled by the ITAA Development Committee Task Force on Transactional Analysis Core Concepts, (Click here if you want to read about how the core concepts were compiled.)
Visiting Eric Berne’s Resting Place
Eric Berne is buried at the El Carmelo Cemetery, Lighthouse and Asilomar Avenues, in Pacific Grove California within view of the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Grove is located on Highway 68, North of Carmel and West of Monterey. To get to El Carmelo take Highway 68 as it branches off Highway 1, North of Carmel. Go […]
