This is somewhat off-topic, but I just had to comment. I see the
book title _I'm Ok, You're Ok_ misused all the time to mean "fluffy,
saccherine, nonesense," and I just want to inform you all that this
book, written in 1967 as the public introduction to Transactional
Analysis, is anything BUT that. It is one of the best books I have
ever read regarding human interaction, and one of the best tools I
know of to help people to communicate in mature and thoughtful ways
and to understand why this doesn't always occur. I wish more people
would read this book and not just continue to misunderstand its
title. I'm sure that if the author had any idea how his terminology
would be misunderstood, he would have named the book differently, and
maybe used different terminology all together to express his concept.
Again, I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks to have
better communication and better relationships. There are few books
in the New Age genre of self-help that can even come close to
touching this book. If you were to understand the real meaning
behind "I'm ok, you're ok," you would not denegrate it as fluff. In
fact you ought to celebrate it as something very profound.
Anita
Anita Graf
313-F Conner Hall
Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7509
(706) 542-1915 phone
(706) 542-0739 fax
agraf@agecon.uga.edu
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