Thomas A. Harris
Psychiatrist and self-help author
Thomas A. Harris was an American psychiatrist who wrote the self-help book I’m Ok, You’re Ok. It became a bestseller after it appeared in 1967.
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American Born 1910 in San Antonio, United States Died 1995
Influenced by Eric Berne
About Thomas A. Harris
Thomas Anthony Harris was born in 1910 and died in 1995. He worked as a psychiatrist for the United States Navy and later became a university professor. He also founded an association for Transactional Analysis, a therapeutic method built on the ideas of psychologist Eric Berne. In 1985 he published Staying OK, a follow-up to I’m Ok, You’re Ok. He wrote it with his wife Amy Bjork Harris, a journalist and lecturer.