Thomas Anthony Harris

1910–1995

1 standalone book

Thomas Anthony Harris (April 18, 1910 – May 4, 1995) was an American psychiatrist and author best known for his self-help book I'm OK, You're OK (1967), which became a bestseller. He was a long-time friend and associate of Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis, and they first met while both were psychiatrists in the U.S. military. Harris was a founding member of Berne's San Francisco Transactional Analysis Seminar, which met weekly for over a decade and helped develop the core concepts of Transactional Analysis. He was also a Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association. Harris advocated for group therapy and Transactional Analysis over traditional psychoanalysis, a perspective for which he was trained by Harry Stack Sullivan.

Born

1910