Claude Michel Steiner was a French-born American psychotherapist and writer who wrote extensively about transactional analysis.
12 Facts About Claude Steiner
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Claude Steiner's writings focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and interpersonal power plays.
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Claude Steiner was considered the originator of the theory called Stroke Economy.
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Claude Steiner's parents were Austrian, his mother Ashkenazi Jewish and his father white.
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In 1952, Claude Steiner went to the United States to study engineering.
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Claude Steiner was a founding member and teaching member of the International Transactional Analysis Association.
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Claude Steiner founded a Radical Psychiatry Center in Berkeley and worked with a Radical Psychiatry collective there.
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Claude Steiner wrote extensively about radical psychiatry, for example in books and journals like The Radical Therapist.
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Claude Steiner practiced as a Radical Therapist for decades as part of the Bay Area Radical Therapy Collective.
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Claude Steiner opposed America's role in Vietnam War and was an outspoken critic of US policy and actions involving Latin America.
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Claude Steiner summarized his views in his conclusion to his treatise called "Transactional Analysis in the Information Age".
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Claude Steiner died at his ranch in Ukiah, California on 9 January 2017, three days after his 82nd birthday.