In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology).
Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present and is gaining recent recognition worldwide.
In 1970 he made contact with the Radical Therapy Collective, then in Minot, North Dakota, which led to period of collaboration between the two groups.
Accordingly I followed my interest in power and its abuses away from Transactional Analysis into propaganda, journalism and Central American politics.
As the world peers into the twenty-first century with every one wondering how they will be affected by the looming millennial changes, we, in Transactional Analysis, are in possession of a legacy which is only now becoming clear: we have the tools and the insights of an Information Age, communication-based psychology and psychiatry.A Warm Fuzzy Tale is a 1970 book by Steiner.
The fairy tale–like story introduces "strokes" and other ideas about social interaction and emotion derived from transactional analysis.
[6] It was republished in 1977 as The Original Warm Fuzzy Tale with illustration by Jo Ann Dick, and has since been translated into multiple languages.
These exchanges symbolize Steiner and Eric Berne's notion of "strokes", recognition and emotional support among people.