Thomas Anthony Harris
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Thomas A. Harris MD (born 1910, died Sacramento, California, May 6, 1995) was an American psychiatrist and author who became famous for his self-help manual I'm OK, You're OK (1969).[1] The book was a runaway bestseller and its title became a catch phrase of the 1970s.
Harris received his bachelor of science degree in 1938 from the University of Arkansas Medical School.[1] He was trained in psychiatry at Washington DC's St. Elizabeths Hospital. A US Navy psychiatrist for many years, Harris became chief of the Psychiatry Branch and left the service as a commander in 1954.[1] After that, he taught at the University of Arkansas, then worked as a senior mental health bureaucrat. He practiced psychiatry in Sacramento, CA, and was a director of the Transactional Analysis Association, created by his mentor, Dr. Eric Berne.
In 1985, Harris published Staying OK, a sequel to I'm OK, You're OK, written with his wife, the journalist and lecturer Amy Bjork Harris (born 1929).[2]
- ^ a b c THOMAS A. HARRIS Psychiatrist and Author, obituary in The Washington Post, May 7, 1995
- ^ Keeping the Adult in Control by John Leo in Time, May 27, 1985
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