Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments |
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Author:
Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward
By Da Capo Press Inc
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Product Description
This is the 25th anniversary edition of one of the best-selling self-help books ever, with over 3 million copies sold. It helps readers to analyze their communication style, aiming to improve it.
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 Well it's a classic really, 2003-03-08
Great summary of games players and how people interact, with clear examples, structured approach etc. Far better than Games People Play or I'm OK you're OK. Necesary reading for everyone who has a family or friends or job. One star docked for age, but it's stood the test of time pretty well.
 Cheaper than psychotherapy!, 2009-08-09
A book I would recommend everyone should read. The title sounds so naff, but this is not your 'run of the mill' self-help book. Written in the 70's, but still as relevant today, the book explains the influences that affect personal development and how to identify and overcome entrenched behaviour patterns that ultimately hold us back. Cheaper than psychotherapy!
 searching for the useful bits, 2010-05-04
After reading this book I wasn't so much inspired that we are all born to win, but wondered how we manage to survive and be half-decent human beings at all. With such a positive title I found it terribly pessimistic and struggled to find the optimism the title suggests. Perhaps the book is most useful as an educational aid, for professionals and students of these techniques. As someone seeking techniques and tools for self-growth it wasn't for me. While I can accept some or even many of the concepts, I am very sceptical of theories that "blame" it all on one's childhood. From that wary predisposition I then found myself irritated by the unnecessary Americanisms of the text (in the imagined dialogues) and the totally useless diagrams and pictures. I do think there are some very useful truths in the text and was able to identify interactions and transactions that I currently engage in and would like to amend, though I don't think this is the book to help me do so. Perhaps at another stage of my life I would read this and find it a revelation and full of useful ideas. For now I shall try to take the few useful bits and make sense of them in the context of other books I've read.
Possibly the best Self-Help book ever!, 2001-04-11
Transactional Analysis and Gestalt may seem old hat these days but the basic priniples have stood the test of time. This book formed the basis of my own study of TA in the seventies and also enabled me to beat a long standing history of recurrent depression and stress-related illness. I now teach TA to medical professionals and, 30 years on, this is still the best book available! Last updated and revised on its 25th birthday in 1996 this really is a "must buy" for anyone interested in digging through the "psychobabble" to the core of what makes people, including you, tick.
Understanding Yourself, 2010-04-22
This is not just a self-help book. It's a classic Transactional Analysis's book written in the early seventieths that brings exercises and experiments from Gestalt, that will help you answer questions like: "Who am I?" and "What am I doing here?"
It's a very easy reading book which presents the TA theory in a clear way which can be understood by everybody. According to Eric Berne, creator of Transactional Analysis, the theory could be understood by an 8 year old child.
I'm a psychotherapist and I use TA every day in my life and in my practice with clients to help them make the changes they want. I recommend this book to all my clients, which help them on the process of psychotherapy. They enjoy the exercises that are very easily done. For them I make a special reference to chapter 5, where the authors present an easy explanation on how we become the way we are and the origin of the internal dialogue, helping people to make new decisions.
It's an amazing book that I would recommend to anyone interested in having a better life with oneself and with others.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89145
EAN: 9780201590449
ISBN: 0201590441
Label: Da Capo Press Inc
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1996-08-09
Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
Studio: Da Capo Press Inc |
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