Word: ok
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Although most of the classes were coeducational by the mid-fifties, some classes such as a ROTC naval history class nickn med "Boats," with enrollment restricted to men Darst remembers that one of her friends sough permission to take Boats--and when she got the OK, the story ran on the front page of The Crimson...
Despite its fluffy title, I'm OK -- You're OK was one of the more persuasive pop psychology works to come out of California during the 1960s. Author Thomas A. Harris managed the intellectual feat of combining the conventional sunlit optimism of the period with a few of the darker strains of Freudian and Christian thinking. The result: a surprising, 15 million-copy best seller...
...publishing success of that scope calls for a sequel, and after 16 years, Harris, 75, and his wife of 28 years, Journalist and Lecturer Amy Bjork Harris, 56, are now out with OK II under the slightly cautious title Staying OK (Harper & Row; $15.95). The effort is partly a restatement of the first book's discussion of the therapy known as transactional analysis and partly a collection of homey tips on how to apply transactional insights to daily life. Says Amy Harris: "This might be thought of as a recipe book, as opposed to a book on the theory...
...divisions of the ego can produce self-defeating scripts or "games." Thomas Harris added Psychiatrist Alfred Adler's concept of a universal "inferiority feeling." In Harris' view, many people go through life thinking of themselves as helpless children overwhelmed by adults. This stance, which he calls "I'm not OK -- You're OK," is often no one's fault. Even good parents who warn their children not to run into a busy street can build a feeling of worthlessness in their offspring. Children often lack the capacity to see the wisdom of a parental order. The child knows only that...
...couple have evolved a version of psychic salvation, stemming in part from Christian theology, that has made their system attractive for use in many churches: in a leap of faith and act of will, each person must see and love the Child in others. The healthy stance, "I'm OK -- You're OK," turns out to be Jesus' dictum played sideways: "Love thy neighbor as thyself...