SCRIPTS PEOPLE LIVE; Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts

Claude Steiner

ISBN 10: 0394492676 / ISBN 13: 9780394492674

Published by Grove Press, 1974

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This copy is tight and clean with no markings; piece missing from the front end paper; green boards have a little edge wear and some handling soil. Seller Inventory # 003475

Bibliographic Details

Title: SCRIPTS PEOPLE LIVE; Transactional Analysis ...

Publisher: Grove Press

Publication Date: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

When Claude Steiner and the late Eric Berne developed the theory of Transactional Analysis, their basic belief that people were “born princes and princess, until their parents turned them into frogsâ countered the fundamental principle of psychiatry which asserts that emotional and mental distress comes from within. This theory was further developed in Steinerâ s book Games Alcoholics Play. Dr. Berne, in What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, acknowledged Steinerâ s important role in the analysis of “life scriptsâ which we choose at an early age and which rule every detail of our lives until our death.

In Scripts People Live, Steiner expands upon this belief to show that people are innately healthy but develop a pattern early in life based upon negative or positive influences of those around them.