Everyone agreed on that - public school authorities, psychiatrists, even the mother who loved her but could not reach her. Everyone, except one remarkable teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused. A teacher who saw Hannah as she could be rather than what she seemed to be.One child. One teacher. Just enough to add up to a very human miracle..."-from the back cover-

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    The rewarding results will be new self-confidence, healed relationships, and a heightened sensitivity to others' needs and feelings.

    High schooler Geri Peters recounts her descent into alcoholism.

    "Schizophrenia is not a disease," Szasz insists, only a name that fake doctors (psychiatrists) give to misbehavers who annoy their families & misfits who can't "endure life with decency & dignity." This anti-Freudian no lesion-no illness formula is familiar, but genetic approaches to the subject--& all the recent, impressive statistics--are also rejected. Even R.D. Laing & the "anti-psychiatrists" (who've stolen much of Szasz' thunder) draw ridicule--for their idealization of insanity & for attempts to treat, however benignly, "so-called" schizophrenics. The undeniable problems with the schizophrenia diagnosis--vagueness, lack of etiology, institutional abuse--receive repeated emphasis, along with nightmarish reports of (primarily Soviet) political persecution masquerading as psychiatry. Disturbing stuff, but Szasz drowns the valid controversies in hyperbole ("the greatest scientific scandal of our scientific age") & tests our patience with labored analogies: therapy as slavery or arranged marriage, schizophrenia as the psychiatric faith's Eucharist. As always, the Szasz attack is relentlessly abstract (no case histories or current asylum data) & short on compassion, yet imbued with an odd eloquence that perhaps only tunnel-vision can achieve.--Kirkus

    Its author, Dr. Eric Berne, went on to write a series of other bestsellers that transformed our way of looking at "people problems" and launched a revolutionary new approach to emotional health with transactional analysis. Here in one volume the founder of that movement explains in his own words what transactional analysis is all about-the joy of understanding yourself and others by learning how to deal with life's troublemakers and relationship wreckers, your unconscious life script you wrote as a child and how to rewrite it, how to become fully aware, alive, autonomous. This is the first one-volume treasury of the best of Eric Berne.