I'm OK, You're OK

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A little dated, but still a great book - Rated
If you are having issues communicating with anyone, this is the book for you.

Be warned, it is a little dated - which I actually found amusing.

I'm OK -- You're OK - Rated
I read this book back in the '60's and it has been a great help in my life. I am giving a book report on it next week in class. I have just recently returned to school at the age of 59. Career Management Class is requiring a short book report on self-improvement. I sincerely believe that this book is a great asset to help anyone with self-improvement, ant that's the reason I have choosen it for my report.

I'm OK - You're OK - Rated
I really enjoyed this book, both as a trainee counsellor and as a human being. It is a good starter to TA and the reader can readily identify with the processes described. It is very out of date, although I think you can read your way around this by bearing in mind it is a product of the 60s.

'Staying OK', the sequel written predominantly by Harris' wife, is a good read for those who want to follow up the theory with some practice. It makes entertaining reading, although it is rather more self-help than the self-enlightenment of the original.

Easy to read but very dated. - Rated
Discovering Transactional Analysis may well change your life. It certainly changed mine.
This book provides a very accessible and readable introduction to transactional analysis.
However the book is dangerously out of date. It was written in the 60s and has not been brought up to date.

What I found out after reading this book and getting really interested in TA is that in the 60s TA went through a period where it was adopted as a kind of pop-psychology and a number of books were published which are now regarded as over-simplified. Also TA has moved on a lot in the last 30 to 40 years and there are now widely accepted theories and techniques which were not around in the 60s. A much more modern book is TA Today : A New Inroduction to Transactional Analysis,Ian Stewart, Vann Joines . Which I would recommend in preference to this book.

Interesting subject Introduction, but very dated - Rated
My therapist suggested that I read this book, and the author's concept of CHILD -- PARENT -- ADULT was very interesting, very relevant to my situation, and the book was worth reading for that alone.

BUT, I got thoroughly irritated by the constant "He\Him" use. Nowadays Political Correctness would ensure that Harris used non-gender terms instead.

"PC" can be over-rated, but Harris was clearly out of date here, and some of his other practices and philosophies are out of step with the more egalitarian world we now live in. Patients have charters, rights, and they expect more choice and respect than are obvious in this writing.

So I was left thinking: "If Harris is out of date in these areas, could his ideas and conclusions also be tired and overtaken by 30years of further study.

Perhaps this is unfair on the author. The book was useful to me, but you need to follow it with something more recent.