Thomas Anthony Harris

Thomas Anthony Harris ( born April 18, 1910 in San Antonio, Texas; † 6 May 1995 Sacramento, California ) was an American psychiatrist, psychiatrist and author.

Life

Harris attended high school in San Antonio. He then studied medicine and earned a Bachelor degree in 1938 at the Medical College of the University of Arkansas. In 1942 he began his training as a specialist in psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. Afterwards served as Harris psychiatrist with the U.S. Navy. He became chief physician of the psychiatric service at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia. In 1947 he became head of the Psychiatric Department of the Office of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department.

He left the military in 1954 with the rank of frigate captain. After this farewell Harris was appointed lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Arkansas. Following his teaching Harris was appointed the Director of the Authority for the institution being in Washington State. In this position he was responsible for the care program in the prisons and the mental hospitals. In 1956, Harris established himself as a specialist in psychiatry in Sacramento, California.

Since 1960, Thomas A. Harris was one of the closest associates of Eric Berne. Harris collaborated with Harry Stack Sullivan and Frieda Fromm- Reichmann. In the publication, I'm ok -. 're Ok that was published in 1963, Harris summarizes the his medical experience he could do for twenty-five years.

Harris was Director of the International Association for Transactional Analysis, which had founded his mentor Eric Berne, and founder and president of the Institute for transactional analysis in Sacramento.

Publications

• I'm ok - You're ok. A Practical Guide to Transactional Analysis. Harper & Row, New York 1963 German edition: I 'm o.k. You are o.k. An introduction to Transactional Analysis. From the American translated by Irmela Brender. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1975, ISBN 3-499-16916-9