Claude Steiner
Encyclopedia
Claude Steiner is a psychotherapist who has written extensively about transactional analysis
(TA). His writings have focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism
, emotional literacy
, and Interpersonal power plays.
, France
. His parents were Austrian
, his mother Jewish and his father Christian
. The family left France in 1939 ahead of the impending Nazi
invasion. Eventually the family settled in Mexico
.
to study engineering. In 1957 he met and became a follower of Eric Berne
, psychiatrist
and founder of the transactional analysis school of psychotherapy. In 1965 he obtained a Ph.D.
in clinical psychology
at the University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor. He is a founding member and teaching member of the International Transactional Analysis Association
.
In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory
(of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present.
of the 1960s and has been an outspoken critic of US policy and actions involving Latin America
.
Claude Steiner summarises his views in his conclusion to his Treatise: TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS IN THE INFORMATION AGE
the Study of Emotions” Transactional Analysis Journal 1996, January #1.
Transactional analysis
Transactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy. It is described as integrative because it has elements of psychoanalytic, humanist and cognitive approaches...
(TA). His writings have focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
, emotional literacy
Emotional Literacy
The term emotional literacy has often been used in parallel to, and sometimes interchangeably with, the term "emotional intelligence". However, there are important differences between the two....
, and Interpersonal power plays.
Early life
Steiner was born in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. His parents were Austrian
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, his mother Jewish and his father Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
. The family left France in 1939 ahead of the impending Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
invasion. Eventually the family settled in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
.
Education
In 1952, Steiner went to the United StatesUnited States
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to study engineering. In 1957 he met and became a follower of Eric Berne
Eric Berne
Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis and the author of Games People Play.-Background and education:...
, psychiatrist
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
and founder of the transactional analysis school of psychotherapy. In 1965 he obtained a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in clinical psychology
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...
at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Ann Arbor. He is a founding member and teaching member of the International Transactional Analysis Association
International Transactional Analysis Association
The International Transactional Analysis Association is a nonprofit educational organization which promotes the theory, methods and principles of Transactional Analysis .-Scope:The ITAA promotes TA as a social psychology applicable to:* Psychotherapy...
.
In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory
Social theory
Social theories are theoretical frameworks which are used to study and interpret social phenomena within a particular school of thought. An essential tool used by social scientists, theories relate to historical debates over the most valid and reliable methodologies , as well as the primacy of...
(of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present.
Politics
Steiner has been active in political causes. He opposed the US role in Vietnam WarVietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
of the 1960s and has been an outspoken critic of US policy and actions involving Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
.
Claude Steiner summarises his views in his conclusion to his Treatise: TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS IN THE INFORMATION AGE
It seems that many in Transactional Analysis are impatient with the state of transactional analysis as a dynamic, developing theory. For myself, I have thought at times that Transactional Analysis has had its day. Many of its ideas have been silently incorporated into the psychiatric culture, but on the whole its point has been missed and it has not been given a place among the great psychiatric theories of the century and I was ready to put it to rest. Accordingly I followed my interest in power and its abuses away from Transactional Analysis into propaganda, journalism and Central American politics. From the distant perspective of an investigator into media and information, in a dawning Information Age I came to see Transactional Analysis in a brand new light; as a visionary theory of Information Age psychology and psychiatry. As the world peers into the twenty first century with every one wondering how they will be affected by the looming millennial changes, we, in Transactional Analysis, are in possession of a legacy which is only now becoming clear: we have the tools and the insights of an Information Age, communication-based psychology and psychiatry.
Publications
- 1962 ’No Exit’ Revisited. Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1962, #4
- 1966 Script and Counterscript. Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1966, #18
- Script Analysis Section: Introductory Remarks. Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1966, #19
- 1967 A Script Checklist Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1967, # 22
- The Treatment of Alcoholism Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1967, #23
- 1968 The Alcoholic Game Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1968, #25
- Transactional Analysis as a Treatment Philosophy Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1968, #27
- with Ursula Steiner Permission Classes Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1968, #28
- 1969 A Warm Fuzzy Tale
- TA Made Simple. RaPress. Berkeley
- with William Cassidy Therapeutic Contracts in Group Treatment Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1969, #30
- The Alcoholic Game Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol Vol 30 # 4 pp 920–938
- Alcoholism. Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1969 #32
- 1970 Games Alcoholics Play. Grove Press, New York, NY.
- A Fairytale. Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1970, #36
- Alcoholismo: Una Aplicacion Practica del Analisis Transaccional. Editorial V Siglos. 1976
- Alkoholist Spel; Analys av Livsmonster. Studentlitteratur. Stockholm. 1981
- A Quoi Jouent Les Alcoholiques; Un nouvelle approche de l'analyse transactionelle. Epi editeurs. 1981
- Nog Eentje Dan Een: Psychotreapeutische Behandeling van Alcoholisme. Uitgeverij Bert Bakker. Amsterdam 1979
- 1971 with John Dusay: "Transactional Analysis" in Comprehensive Group Psychotherapy, R Corsini, ed. Williams and Wilkins, 1971
- “The Stroke Economy” Transactional Analysis Journal 1971 No. 03
- ”A Little Boy’s Dream” Transactional Analysis Journal 1971 No. 01
- 1972 "The 1971 Eric Berne Scientific Award Acceptance Lecture" (awarded for the article "Script and Counterscript" Transactional Analysis Bulletin 1966, #18) Transactional Analysis Journal 1972, Vol 2 #1.
- “Radical Psychiatry Manifesto” The Radical Therapist, Jerome Agel, editor. Ballantine 1972
- “Scripts Revisited” Transactional Analysis Journal 1972 No. 02
- “My Insides Were Once A safe Place” and “Two Love Poems”, Poem-maker Soul-healer, Radical Psychiatry Community Press, Berkeley
- “If I do My Thing” poem, circa 1972 Can be found in “Emotional Literacy Training: The Application of Transactional Analysis to the Study of Emotions” Transactional Analysis Journal 1996, January #1.
- 1973 “Letter to a Brother: Reflections on Men’s Liberation”, Issues in Radical Therapy, Vol. I No. I, Jan 15, 1973, p. 15.
- “Inside T.A.” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. I No. II, Spring ’73, p. 3.
- “Cooperation”, Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. I No. III, Summer ’73, p. 7.
- “The Rescue Triangle”, Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. I No. 4, Autumn ’73, p. 20
- 1974 Scripts People Live. Grove Press, NY.
- Des Scenarios et des Hommes: Analyse transactionelle des scenarios de vie. Desclee de Brouwer. Paris 1996
- Los Guiones que Vivimos. Kairos. Barcelona 1991
- Wie Man Lebensplane Verendert. Die arbeit mit skripts in der transactionsanalyse. Junferman. Padeborn. Germany 1982
- Op Doop Spoor; Transactionele analyse van levensscripten. Uitgeverij Bert Bakker. Amsterdam 1975
- Os Papeis Que Vivemos Na Vida; Analise transacional de nossas interpretacoes cotidianas. Artenova. Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1976
- Copioni di Vita. Editizioni La Vita Felice. Milano. 1999 www.lavitafelice.it
- “Wilheim Reich: A Defeated Revolutionary” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol.2 No. 2, Spring 1974, p. 10.
- “We Are All Outlaws,” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 2 No. 3 Summer ’74, p. 26.
- “Power: Part I” Issues in Radical Therapy Issues in Radical Therapy Vol 3 #4
- 1975 Readings in Radical Psychiatry. Claude Steiner, Editor. Grove Press, NY
- “Power: Part II” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 4 No. 1, Winter ’75, p. 20.
- “The Expanding Shrink”, Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 3 no. 1, Winter ’75, p. 26.
- “Editorial” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 3 No. 3, Summer ’75, p.3.
- with Spence Meigham “An Interview with R.D. Laing” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol 3, No. 4, autumn ’75, p. 3
- 1976 Beyond Games and Scripts. Claude Steiner, Editor. Grove Press, NY
- “Group Editorial” (including Claude Steiner) Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 4 No. 2, Spring ’76, p. 22.
- “Cooperative Living” Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 4 No. 3, Summer ’76, p. 8.
- “Working Cooperatively”, Issues in Radical Therapy Vol. 4 No. 4, Fall ’76, p. 22.
- “Socially Responsible Therapy: Reflections on ‘The Female Juvenile Delinquent’ Transactional Analysis Journal 1976 No. 01
- 1977 The Warm Fuzzy Tale. Jalmar Press, Torrance CA. 1977
- Le Conte Chaud et Doux des Chaudoudoux. InterEditions. Paris. 1984
- “Cooperative Meetings”, Issues in Radical Therapy , #18 Winter 1977, p. 11.
- “The Principles Revised” Issues in Radical Therapy #19, Spring 1977, p. 12.
- “Feminism for Men”, Issues in Radical Therapy #20 Fall 1977, p. 3.
- 1978 “Back at the Ranch”, Issues in Radical Therapy # 21, winter ’78, p. 28.
- “Feminism for Men, Part II,” Issues in Radical Therapy # 22, Spring ’78, p. 3.
- “The Pig Parent”, Issues in Radical Therapy # 23, Summer ‘ 78, p. 5.
- “Living Visions: Round Mountain Update”, Issues in Radical Therapy # 24, Fall ’78, p. 9.
- 1979 Healing Alcoholism. Grove Press, NY.
- “Radical Psychiatry; Once Again with Feeling”, Issues in Radical Therapy # 25, Spring ’79, p. 27.
- “Editorial”, Issues in Radical Therapy # 28, Winter ’79, p. 3.
- “Cooperation”, Issues Radical Therapy # 27 , Fall ’79, p.3.
- “The Pig Parent” Transactional Analysis Journal 1979 No. 01
- 1980 A Manual on Cooperation. Inkworks Press. Oakland, California
- “The Human Potential Movement and Transformation: A conversation with George Leonard” The Script Volume 10 # 5 June 1980
- “Editorial”, Issues in Cooperation and Power, # 2, Summer ’80, p. 3.
- “Mediations” with Becky Jenkins, Issues in Cooperation and Power # 3, Fall 80, p. 4.
- “Editorial”, Issues in Cooperation and Power # 4, Winter ’80, p. 3.
- 1981 The Other Side of Power.Grove Press, NY.
- "The 1980 Eric Berne Scientific Award Acceptance Lecture" (awarded for the article “The Stroke Economy” Transactional Analysis Journal 1971, #3) Transactional Analysis Journal 1981, #1.
- The Other Side of Power. Grove Press, NY.
- O Outro Lado Do Poder; Como tornar-se poderoso sem ter sede de poder. Nobel. São Paulo. 1984
- Macht Ohne Ausbebeutung; Zu okologie zwishenmenschlicher beziehungen. Junferman. Padeborn. Germany. 1985
- L'autre Face de Pouvoir. Desclee de Brouwer. Paris 1995
- “Radical Psychiatry—Once Again with Feeling”, # 25, Spring ’79, p. 27.
- “Monogamy, Non-monogamy, and Omnigamy”, Issues in Cooperation and Power # 5, Spring ’81, p. 4.
- Omnigamy in Iowa Issues in Cooperation and Power #7, Fall ’81, p. 18. (Claude Steiner ed.)
- 1984 Emotional Literacy Transactional Analysis Journal 1984 No. 03
- 1986 When a Man Loves a Woman. Grove Press, NY.
- Quando un Homem Ama Uma Mulher. Editora Gente 1993 São Paulo Brazil
- 1987 “The Seven Sources of Power: An Alternative to Authority” Transactional Analysis Journal 1987 No. 3
- 1995 “Thirty Years of Psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis in 1,500 Words or Less” Transactional Analysis Journal 1995 January #1
- 1996 “Emotional Literacy Training: The Application of Transactional Analysis to
the Study of Emotions” Transactional Analysis Journal 1996, January #1.
- 1997 Achieving Emotional Literacy. Avon Books, New York.
- Emotinale Kompetenz. Hanser. Munchen 1997
- Educacao Emocional. Un programa personalizado para desenvolver sua inteligencia emocional. Objetiva. Rio de Janeiro. 1988
- Emotioneel Vaardig Worden. Een persoonlijke cursus om emotioneel intelligent te worden. Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers. Amsterdam. *1998 L'ABC des Emotions; Developer son intelligence emotionelle. InterEditions, Paris 1998
- L'Alfabeto delle Emozioni. Sperling and Kupfer. Milano. 1999
- La Educacion Emocional. Javier Vergara. Buenos Aires. Argentina.1998
- Laer At Laese Folesler, Ashehoug Dansk Forlag, 1999
- There is also a Chinese edition by Morningstar Publishing Co. 1999
- “Transactional Analysis in the Information Age.” Transactional Analysis Journal, 1997 January # 1
- 1998 “Critique of Integrative Psychotherapy” Letter to the editor The Script #4 May-June 1998
- “Steiner and Erskine/Trautman Dialogue Continues” Letter to the Editor. The Script#8 Nov. 1978
- 2000 “The Meming of Love; Invention of the Human Heart.” Keynote lecture at the 3rd Adolescence Health Conference at the Royal College of Physicians in London, October 2000. Available on www.emotional-literacy.com/meming.htm
- “Apology: The Transactional Analysis of a Fundamental Exchange.” Transactional Analysis Journal 2000 July # 4
- 2001 “Radical Psychiatry.” In Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies Raymond Corsini, ed: New York, Wiley and sons 2001
- “Science and Transactional Analysis” The Script Jan-Feb
- “Finding Correlates to Flights of Fancy” The Script July
- 2002 “The Development of Transactional Analysis Theory and Practice: A Brief History” The Script December 2002
- “The Adult; Once Again, with Feeling” Transactional Analysis Journal January 2002 #1
- 2003 Emotional Literacy; Intelligence With a Heart. Personhood Press. Fawnskin, California
- Response to Helen Hargaden’s article (Script July, 2003) about Eric Berne” A letter to the editor in The Script August 2003
- “Theoretical Musings about Ego States” The Script August 2003
- “Editorial: Core Concepts.” Special Issue on Core Concepts Transactional Analysis Journal, #2, April 2003
- “Core Concepts of a Stroke Centered Transactional Analysis” Transactional Analysis Journal, #2 April 2003
- 2004 Understanding the Enigma of Eric Berne The Script May-June 2004
- "Novey Research Shows Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis." An Interview with Ted Novey. The Script November 2004
- 2005 "Transactional Analysis: An Elegant Theory and Practice." The Script, March 2005
- With Michele Novellino. Theoretical Diversity; A Debate about Transactional Analysis and Psychoanalysis. Transactional Analysis Journal, #2 April 2005.
- 2006 "Transactional Analysis and Psychoanalysis Writing Styles," Transactional Analysis Journal #3 October 2006