Dr. Karpman recalls the childhood scripting messages that led him to be a Teaching Member in the ITAA.
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Stephen B. Karpman
Dr. Karpman is an ITAA Teaching Member (clinical) and twice served as ITAA vice president and twice was winner of the Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award (for the Drama Triangle and Options). He served as the first full editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal, and is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, UCSF, in San Francisco, where he resides and is in private practice.