Benjamin P. Welch
Mr. Barnard
Psychology 200
December 1, 2004



A simple summary of I'm Ok-You're Ok will not give the needed credit that the book and its author deserve. It is a book that one must read to fully or even partially understand it's meaning and the author's viewpoint of transactional analysis. The author, Thomas A. Harris M.D., explains in this book the vast amount of experiences that affect the way we live our life from the moment we are born to the second we die. He explains the different feelings a child experiences from being taken cared of and attended to and vice versa. These feelings are described as "I'm not ok-you're not ok, I'm not ok-you're ok, I'm ok-you're ok, and I'm ok-you're not ok." The author explains how the interactions between a parent and a child help develop each of these feelings and tells how each one is either healthy or unhealthy. The book talks about the way every human has an "Adult, Parent and a Child" in them all......

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