Claude Steiner
| Claude Steiner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 January 1935 Paris, France |
| Died | 9 January 2017 (aged 82) Ukiah, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Psychotherapist, writer |
| Nationality | French, American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Period | 1970s-2017 |
| Genre | Transactional analysis |
| Subject | life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy |
| Notable works | Warm Fuzzy Tale |
Claude Michel Steiner (6 January 1935 – 9 January 2017) was a French-born American psychotherapist and writer who wrote extensively about transactional analysis (TA). His writings focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and interpersonal power plays.
In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present and is gaining recent recognition worldwide.
Steiner was born in Paris, France. His parents were Austrian, his mother Jewish and his father Christian. The family left France in 1939 ahead of the impending Nazi invasion. Eventually the family settled in Mexico.
In 1952, Steiner went to the United States to study engineering. In 1957 he met and became a follower of Eric Berne, a psychiatrist and founder of the transactional analysis school of psychotherapy. In 1965 he obtained a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a founding member and teaching member of the International Transactional Analysis Association.
Steiner was active in political causes. He opposed America's role in Vietnam War and was an outspoken critic of US policy and actions involving Latin America.
Steiner summarized his views in his conclusion to his treatise called "Transactional Aanalysis in the Information Age".
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