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In the opening preface, Harris praises the then-new procedure of Transactional Analysis (TA, or as Harris often refers to it, P-A-C) as a major innovation addressing the slow process and limited results that he and other psychiatric practitioners believed was characteristic of conventional psychiatry. His motivation for writing I’m OK, You’re OK is that TA offers an approach that is accessible, produces results and which can scale to offer many ordinary people affordable ways to deal with issues in their lives, especially because it can be used in group situations which are less costly than traditional one-to-one therapy.
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