I'm Ok-You're Ok - Brossura

Harris, Thomas A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 038000772X ISBN 13: 9780380007721

Casa editrice: Avon Books, 2004

Riassunto

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.

Transactional analysis delineates three ego-states (parent, adult and child) as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. “Happy childhood” notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the not ok feelings of a defenseless child wholly dependent on ok others (parents) for stroking and caring. At some stage early in our lives we adopt a “position” about ourselves which very significantly determines how we feel about ourselves, particularly in relation to other people. And for a huge portion of the population, that position is that I’m Not OK-You’re OK. This negative Life Position, shared by successful and unsuccessful people alike, contaminates our rational adult potential, leaving us vulnerable to the inappropriate, emotional reactions of our child and the uncritically learned behavior programmed into our parent. By exploring the four basic “life positions,” we can radically change our lives.

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“It’s easy to relate to I’m OK-You’re OK. Again and again the reader will find his own predicament staring up at him from the page, along with its message, “If you don’t like the trap, you can change it.” (Cleveland Press)

“Harris has stripped away the technical language of psychoanalysis and presented with lucid logic a way to self-understanding and change.” (Los Angeles Times)

“The book reads easily and interestingly for the unlettered in behavior science.... The practicing therapist cannot help but benefit immeasurably, especially if his inclinations are toward family or group therapy.” (Choice)

“[Readers] who roam these optimistic pages with their allusions to and discussions of Freud, Wilder Penfield, Elton Trueblood, Eric Berne, Bishop Pike, Teilhard de Chardin, and many other great and not-so-great experts may well make the book a bestseller.” (Library Journal)

L'autore:

The late Thomas Harris was a Navy psychiatrist and a professor at the University of Arkansas. He practiced psychiatry in Sacramento, California and directed the Transactional Analysis Association.

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• Editore: Avon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 038000772X
• ISBN 13: 9780380007721
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 317