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Listening, Learning, and Accountability: Three Rules of Openness, Three Rules of Accountability, and the Adult Scales, Listening Scales, and Listener's Loops

Pages 71-86
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article presents eight original unpublished transactional analysis theories and diagrams as used in workshops on effective communication. Complex communication processes have been simplified into ready—made teaching tools that can be used for solving listening, communication, and accountability problems in our relationships at work and at home. The tools are created to be easily applicable to all four areas of transactional analysis interest: the psychotherapy, counseling, organizational, and educational fields.

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Stephen B. Karpman

Stephen B. Karpman, M.D., was a close colleague of Dr. Berne, attending his Tuesday night seminars in San Francisco weekly for 6 years, and is one of the grandfather founding members of the ITAA. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), was twice ITAA vice president, and served 11 years on the board of trustees. He was the first ongoing editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal and has 35 transactional analysis publications. He was the winner of the 1972 (drama triangle) and 1979 (Options) Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Awards. He is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and also has a private practice in San Francisco. For 40 years he has traveled widely conducting training workshops in transactional analysis. Dr. Karpman can be reached for feedback at or at his Web site: http:/sol;www.karpmandramatriangle.com (where his articles are available). Graphics by Eric Karpman at www.EricsGraphics.com.