Claude Steiner

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Claude Steiner was born January 6, 1935 in Paris, 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. In 1952, Steiner went to the United States 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 founding member and teaching fellow of the International Transactional Analysis Association.

In the 1970's and '80's, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychology based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in the modality continues into the present.

Claude Steiner has written extensively about Transactional Analysis. His writings have focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, "emotional literacy", and relational power plays.

Steiner has been active in political causes. He opposed the US role in Vietnam War of the 1960s and has been an outspoken critic of US policy and actions involving Latin America.

[edit] Books by Claude Steiner

1969 TA Made Simple. RaPress. Berkeley
1970 Games Alcoholics Play. Grove Press, New York, NY.
1974 Scripts People Live. Grove Press, NY.
1975 Readings in Radical Psychiatry. Claude Steiner, Editor. Grove Press, NY
1976 Beyond Games and Scripts. Claude Steiner, Editor. Grove Press, NY
1979 Healing Alcoholism. Grove Press, NY.
1980 A Manual on Cooperation. Inkworks Press. Oakland, California
1981 The Other Side of Power.Grove Press, NY.
1986 When a Man Loves a Woman. Grove Press, NY.
1997 Achieving Emotional Literacy. Avon Books, New York.
2003 Emotional Literacy; Intelligence With a Heart. Personhood Press. Fawnskin, California