With Transactional Analysis, Eric Berne made complex interpersonal transactions understandable especially the “games” that the “inner child” plays in order to gain recognition from others. Eric Berne (1910-1970) the founder of Transactional Analysis (center) with Claude Steiner (front,) Jack Dusay (back) and Pamela Blum while attending the 1968 International Congress for Group Psychotherapy in Vienna. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
A Meditation on the Adult and its Corruption
by Claude Steiner PhD I have long wondered about the nexus between transactional analysis, a theory and practice fundamentally based on human interaction on one hand and meditation, the foundation of which is the lone, individual, experience, on the other. In early 2000 after a very difficult 1999 I had occasion to attend a 10 […]
