Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that conviction has crumbled. In a suit filed last week in New York State Supreme Court, CBS contends that Ziff Corp., the parent company of Ziff- Davis, along with its auditors at Touche Ross, fraudulently misrepresented the company's finances when the deal for the dozen periodicals, including Modern Bride and Stereo Review, was struck. CBS alleges that Ziff Corp. understated costs, perhaps by $4 million, and overstated revenues and operating income, possibly by as much as $40 million. The broadcaster, whose Manhattan office tower is known as Black Rock, seeks an undetermined amount of damages...
...basic preaching of TA is that the mind has three "ego states": Parent, Adult and Child, which parallel the Freudian categories of superego, ego and id. The Adult is the rational problem solver; in the healthy personality, the Adult controls both the Parent, who keeps trying to enforce ancient injunctions, and the fun-loving Child, who is the victim of the stern Parent. The man who says to himself "Now you've done it!" after making a mistake is using his Parent to reprimand his Child, who usually feels powerless and in the wrong...
...founder of TA, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, presented the Parent-Adult-Child in Games People Play (1964), an urbane and witty analysis of how these three 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...
Though the internal Parent recording can never be erased, the Harrises say it can be understood in context and then tuned out. The 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...
...think the most important application of their ideas is to child rearing. The child who is not constantly stroked may grow into an adult who constantly belittles other people to gain some temporary relief from feelings of worthlessness. Early childhood years are so crucial, say the Harrises, that one parent should stay home with a child full time until he or she is able to read. Says their book: "We believe six years off to have a baby is minimal. Six weeks off is tragically short of the ideal...