I wrote this letter immediately after attending the ITAA, EATA conference in Zurich August 1998. The letter created quite a stir:
Transactional Analysis
A section with useful info about Transactional Analysis
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?”
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.)
Core Concepts of a Stroke Centered Transactional Analysis
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?”
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 […]
