I'm Ok, You're Ok: A Practical Approach to Human Psychology

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Psychoanalysts maintain that the patient has improved when he has succeeded in avoiding this kind of transfer of feelings from childhood. Harris introduces a diagrammatic representation of two classes of communication between individuals: complementary transactions, which can continue indefinitely, and crossed transactions, which cause a cessation of communication (and frequently an argument).

If the relationship between two people can be made creative, fulfilling, and free of fear, then it follows that this can work for two relationships, or three or one hundred or, we are convinced, for relationships that affect entire social groups, even nations. Thomas Harris says that all games have their origin in the childhood game of ‘Mine Is Better Than Yours’.I have been reading Adler in the past few days and am trying to digest where his pre-occupation with the need to co-operate fits in with TA but more of that digression at another time. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon from McGill University in Montreal, who in 1951 began to produce exciting evidence to confirm and modify theoretical concepts which had been formulated in answer to these questions.

And finally to my patients, whose creative and emancipated thinking has provided much of the content of this book.About one-half of these professionals are psychiatrists; the other half includes medical doctors of other specialties (obstetrics, pediatrics, internal medicine, general practice), psychologists, social workers, probation officers, nurses, teachers, personnel managers, clergymen, and judges.

Harris's pioneering work in Transactional Analysis has had a fundamental impact on our understanding of interpersonal behavior. Familiar miseries may seem more comfortable to frightened parents than the risk of trusting their teenager to develop his own inner controls. I'm Ok, You're Ok - The Graphic Model (Four Life Positions)Transactional Analysis - I'm ok, you're ok: Just as there are the schools of thought of psychoanalysis, systemic psychology or behavioral psychology, Transactional Analysis is also a separate field. One difficulty with many psychoanalytic words is that they do not have the same meanings for everybody. Continual outpourings of psychological literature, whether printed in psychiatric journals or the Reader’s Digest, have increased this expectancy yearly, but the chasm between this and cure seems to have widened.I submit that psychiatry must develop a public language, decontaminated of technical jargon and suited to the discussion of universal problems of our society.

If the numbers I’m seeing are correct, Harris’ “copies sold” eclipsed Berne’s by nearly twice as much, with the paperbacks included. The confession of the Child to a religious priest says “I’m sorry, I’m not OK, please forgive me, I’m awful”. And the more we separate the three, the more we develop and strengthen our adult and we free ourselves up. The following reports of two patients illustrate the way in which stimulations in the present evoke past feelings.

Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and cookies are used to provide critical insights into behavior of visitors to deliver better results. An enormously popular (7-million copies sold) and insightful classic of popular psychology based on Eric Berne’s theory of Transactional Analysis that has helped millions of people who never before felt OK about themselves find the freedom to change, to liberate their ADULT effectiveness, and to achieve joyful intimacy with the people in their lives. Example for Ok-PositionsHere's an experience from how I use the Ok-positions in everyday life:
Yesterday again .