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Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments Mass Market Paperback – Illustrated, July 1 1978

by Muriel James (Author), Dorothy Jongeward (Author)
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"The clearest and easily the best popular book of them all."
—Psychology Today.

In this enriching volume, Dr. Muriel James, co-author of Passion for Life: Psychology and the Human Spirit, and Dr. Dorothy Jongeward, show that every person has the potential to be a winner: to be an authentic, alive, repsonsive, fulfilled human being. An imaginative guide for self-analysis, discovery and growth—complete with experiments and exercises you can do by yourself—Born to Win uses psychlogical insights to increase your awareness of the real power you have to direct your own life, to make decisions, to develop your own ethical system, to enhance the lives of others—and to understand that you were "Born To Win."

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Dr. Muriel James is a licensed marriage and family counselor, an international consultant in human relations to corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies, and was an advisor to the California Commission on the Status of Women. Dr. James received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkely. She is past president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and was a colleague of Dr. Eric Berne. Dr. James is author and co-author of seventeen books, including Breaking Free, Hearts on Fire, The Better Boss in Multicultural Organizations and Passion for Life: Psychology and the Human Spirit.
Dr. Dorothy Jongeward is an internationally prominent management consultant who has pioneered the field of productivity through "people skills." She served on the faculty of the University of California Extension for many years and has made a lasting contribution to understanding the psychology of women. She is a Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association and a Life Member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. She has authored or co-authored seven other succesful books including Women as Winners and Winning with People. Her creative career is cited in many references, including The World's Who's Who of Women. In 1990, Dr. Jongeward was selected as one of six alumni of Washington State University "who have made significant contributions to history and culture in this century."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0451165217
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Illustrated edition (July 1 1978)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780451165213
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451165213
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.57 x 2.06 x 17.02 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pocket sized copy you can take anywhere and enjoy reading.
Reviewed in Canada on August 21, 2022
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It's an interesting book combining transactional analysis and gestalt psychotherapy approaches.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic self-help book still helps
Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2000
There are a plethora of books in the self help section, and sometimes you don't know which ones are really helpful or not... This book is a classic. It was written in 1971, and unlike many texts of that time, it is still fresh, interesting and relevant. It's written in an easy, jargon free language, which has at its heart a depth and genuine empathic concern for people and their journies.
The techniques they apply are based on the transactional analysis model developed by Eric Berne, but don't worry, you don't have to know any thing about that - the book explains itself beautifully.
The main reason I love it is that it is filled with exercises that you can do by yourself, or share with a partner, about who you are and how you relate to things. It has excellent, simple exercises that open you up to examining childhood influnces, parental attitudes and current behaviour patterns in an illuminating, non-judgemental way.
If you are interested in learning a bit more about yourself, or if you have behaviour patterns that are troubling you and aren't sure where they come from, this is a great place to start.
I've given this book frequently as a gift (adolescents love it!) and I always get lovely feedback. I would definitely recommend this book ahead of a host of others that are out there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book changed my life.
Reviewed in Canada on March 19, 2003
I read this book in the mid-1970s when I was a confused mid-twenty something. After reading this book I had the drive and courage to accomplish many goals I had previously thought were only dreams. I have recently decided to give this book to my 18 year old daughter, who is a senior in high school and frightened by the life ahead of her. I hope it works as well for her as it did for me. (If I can get her to read the book with an open and accepting attitude.)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Through the ages.
Reviewed in Canada on June 14, 2016
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Dr Navin Machado
5.0 out of 5 stars The inner self
Reviewed in Canada on July 16, 2000
"Born to Win " , is a book I read 20 years back , & have kept going back to ever since. It is an insight into the inner self of a person , without a whole lot of technical jargon .Its fun reading, with a whole lot of telling-it-all pictures , stories , anecdotes. It stays simple , which is very difficult when the subject is technical.Its a great gift to a confused teenager, a groping adult, a troubled parent or just about anybody. Make sure you have your own copy .
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
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printing is too small not good quality printing.
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The font quality is terrible too small and unclear
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Hari Thummalapalli
4.0 out of 5 stars Theory on how to transform yourself into a WINNER.
Reviewed in Canada on April 6, 2003
We all instinctively seem to categorize everyone we meet (including ourselves) as a Winner or a Loser. We may not necessarily share our opinions with others, but we still constantly judge everyone and everything. Judgement is necessary for us to make everyday decisions on situations we run into but there may NOT be a need to place a positive or negative value on the judgements. This seems to be the unexpressed basis behind the book's methods to help us achieve our potential of a Winner that we were born to be.
The authors in this book start by defining Winners and Losers and present the two tools available in the early seventies to change oneself into a Winner. These two tools are Gestalt Therapy and Transactional Analysis. Gestalt Therapy was introduced by Dr. Frederick Perls and focuses on making ourselves into a whole in order to be a Winner. Transactional Analysis was brought to us by Dr. Eric Berne and focuses on understanding our interactions with others and what drives these interactions. He also delves into how these interactions (transactions) can go haywire and lead to problems in relationships.
After introducing the ideas in the above paragraph in Chapter 1, the book goes into an overview of Transactional Analysis by modeling the different parts of our personalities into three ego states - Parent, Adult and Child. ...
This is of course a simplification of the theory and the book spends an incredible amount of time addressing how these three sides to our personalities can interact with these same three ego states in another individual and all the things that can go wrong along the way and how to fix them. The process of getting these three ego states to work together is where Gestalt Therapy comes in. There are numerous exercises to help one's transformation but I kind of felt shy when I was 19 to do this with anyone else. I felt like it was bad enough that I knew I needed help but I didn't want it to get worse by publishing to the world what my problems were. I don't feel this way anymore so I would recommend that everyone who plans on using this book decide for themselves the approach that works best for them...
This is a book to own for a lifetime and refer to once every few years to see how much one has succeeded in having a more integrated personality. When I recently read this book for a third time, I definitely felt that it was a lot easier to comprehend and use than I did the first two times. The best thing about the theory in this book is that it is very easy to understand and relate to....I hope that after reading this book, you too increase your self-confidence and self-esteem. Good luck in becoming more of a Winner!
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Philip Herlihy
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, and the best account of TA I've found
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2023
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Clear and easy to read. It's an account of Transactional Analysis (Google it), which is a "metaphor" for aspects of human experience and interaction, yet one which helps us find an underlying truth in how and why we feel, behave and interact as we do. It provides a language which helps us recognise things in ourselves and others, and these insights have passed the test of time. I'm a graduate in hard-nosed experimental, scientific, evidence-based Psychology, but TA nevertheless has illuminated my life since I was first introduced to it in 1979. This book was written in rather less cynical times than we live in now, and the language (and title, and cover) might seem naive, even saccharine. But the introduction explains the title well, and the book's explanatory purpose is seriously pursued. If you want to understand Transactional Analysis - and perhaps yourself - you probably can't do better.
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Nina Zhuk
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book
Reviewed in Poland on October 16, 2021
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Great interesting book, the version from October 2021 no missing pages 😀
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Chaitanya Konher
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent content, so go for it
Reviewed in India on May 7, 2019
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As other reviewers pointed out, the print is unbearable. But the book is readable enough, so look beyond its appearance. The content is brilliant, life changing, and yet an easy read. For what I'm beginning to learn, I give this book 5 stars.
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Mosi Soli
5.0 out of 5 stars ontime and well priced
Reviewed in Germany on February 6, 2016
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The Book came in good condition and on time. The book is a classic which is enjoyable to read. thank you.
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Thomas( Doc Savage 45)
5.0 out of 5 stars Well Done!
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2008
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I have been a practicing pychologist for almost thirty years. have my original yellowed copy with broken back, prominant on my shelf. I refer people to this book and work them through it as a course in thinking and feeling change!

It is clear and understandable. I was taught Transactional Analysis by my Clinical professor. We also used TA in the theraputic community when I was a prison psychologist. The authors combine gestalt process along with transactional models. Eric Berne the creator of TA was trained in Freudian Psychology so there is some parallels. But the language is concrete and the sources of the content are tangible. It is a process oriented book, with some insight thrown in.

There is criticism about a lack of philosophical orientation, but I continue to recomend this book after many years, and send my patients/clients out to find it. Hopefully we will continue to keep it being published.

Possibly an updated version? Why? You may not be old enough to remember when the grocery store gave out gold and green stamps for merchandise redemtion? So the idea of collecting stamps as a way of describing building up feelings of injustice may be confusing.

I have used this as a text in bibliotherapy for some clients who radically changed there lives before my eyes.

I highly recomend this book! I actually do! In my practice!

I am continuing to recomend this book to my clients. As I mentioned above it is a little dated. Eric Bernes was a classicaly trained therapist. he found that using more specific everyday labels of our memories and learning placed into simple, recognizable, concepts allows every person to understand. It combined with other skills provides insight as to why we behave as we do.

This version is a 25th anniversary edition. LOL! I recomend it !
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