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Emotional Literacy Training: The Application of Transactional Analysis to the Study of Emotions

Pages 31-39
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Dealing with the emotional side of the therapeutic process was not a major emphasis in Eric Berne's thinking as he developed transactional analysis. Nevertheless, by inventing the concept of strokes and designing techniques for the analysis of transactions—the exchange of strokes—he laid the foundation for a pragmatic method of studying the emotional aspect of human interactions. Emotional literacy training is the application of transactional analysis to the study and effective use of our and others' emotional selves. In this article, emotional literacy is defined, training methods are outlined, and different contexts for training are explored.

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Claude M. Steiner

Claude M. Steiner, Ph.D., a Teaching Member of the ITAA and a clinical psychologist, did his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a friend and colleague of Eric Berne's from 1966 until the latter's death in 1970. Claude was the author, in 1958, of the Warm Fuzzy Tale, a story that, unbeknownst to him at the time, contained the embryonic outlines and eventually led to the development of emotional literacy theory and practice. This article is a summary of a detailed, 30-page article on the same subject.
 

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