by Claude Steiner PhD, TM Abstract: The author presents a set of core concepts that satisfy the author’s idea of “What is Transactional Analysis?”
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
Transactional Analysis and the Triune Brain
by Claude Steiner Introduction Eric Berne, originally a psychoanalyst, gave birth to transactional analysis 50 years ago when he divided people’s behavior (the ego in psychoanalytic parlance) into two portions; the archeopsyche which he called “the Child” for short and the neopsyche which he called “the Adult.” Observers of human behavior had long noticed that […]
The Adult; Once Again with Feeling
By Claude Steiner, PhD, TM. Abstract: The question of the existence of emotions in the Adult ego state is explored. Evolutionary and neuroscience research is referred to. Love of truth is proposed as the essence of the Adult emotion. “…This produced in my twelve year old self a sort of ecstasy. The sense (in Einstein’s […]
Cyber-psychology / Cyborg Psychology
Below you will find the table of contents and summary of the book I am currently working on. Emotional literacy is an aspect of this larger picture. I should explain that I called this subject cyber-psychology long before the “cyber” affix was added to everything but the kitchen sink. I am considering changing the title […]
The Development of Transactional Theory and Practice; A Brief History
By Claude Steiner PhD Fifty years ago Eric Berne invented Transactional Analysis (TA). From the beginning, TA, which is at once a theory of social and personal psychology, and a method of psychotherapy and education, ran into difficulties. This was because Berne expressed his theory not only in scientific terms, but also in terms of […]
Apology; the Transactional Analysis of a fundamental exchange
By Claude Steiner PhD Abstract: One of the most important and difficult transactional options that are taught in Emotional Literacy Training is the Apology Transaction. A systematic analysis is presented of the elements constituting the complete apology transaction with examples. The article also serves as an example of what the author considers transactional analysis proper, […]
