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05/16/12

Welcome to the Activity of Listening and The Ernst OK Corral at www.ListeningActivity.com

This is an informational web site dedicated to educating visitors to various topics such as the activity of listening, games people play, transactional analysis, social dynamics, the four categories of dynamic social operations, and others. The listening activity and other topics are described in several publications, written by Franklin H. Ernst Jr., M.D.

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Art work, drawings, and diagrams are also available for your viewing and usage.

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"Transactional Analysis in the OK Corral: Grid for What's Happening" (HTML) (PDF)

"Coercive Feelings: Psychological Rackets in the OK Corral" (HTML) (PDF)

"Getting Well With Transactional Analysis: Get-On-With, Getting Well and Get (to be) Winners" (HTML) (PDF)

"The Game Diagram" (HTML) (PDF)

"OK Corral, Grid for What's Happening. Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award Acceptance Speech / Boston, August 14, 1981" (HTML) (PDF)

"Handbook of Listening / Transactional Analysis of the Listening Activity" (HTML) (PDF)

"Leaving Your Mark" (HTML) (PDF)

"Outline of Listening" (HTML) (PDF)

"Third Circle - The Diagramed Parent: Eric Berne's Most Significant Contribution" (HTML) (PDF)

"Fourth Millennium of the Alphabet and the Transactional Analysis Diagrams" (HTML) (PDF)

Guide to the User Friendly OK Corral: Grid for What's Happening (HTML) (PDF new) (PDF original)

"The I'm OK, You're OK Classroom - Exchange of Named Hello Greeting Exercises in Public Education Classrooms" (HTML) (PDF)

"Andrea's Named Hellos" (HTML) (PDF)

"Can We Say The Hellos Now ?" (HTML) (PDF)

"A Sea Of Unknown Faces In Public Schools" (HTML) (PDF)

"Organized Pandemonium" (HTML) (PDF)

"The OK Corral" poster (PDF)

"Personality Functions" (PAC) poster (PDF)

"Our Letter" newsletter archives

"Neighborhood Watch Talk" newsletter archives

The Encounterer archives (PDF files)

"The Encounterer" was the newsletter of the Golden Gate Foundation For Group Treatment, Inc. It was written and edited by Franklin H. Ernst Jr., M.D. Many of Dr. Ernst's contributions to Transactional Analysis were introduced and developed in "The Encounterer." These included carrying forward Dr. Berne's earliest thoughts about OKness (I'm OK and You're OK, I'm OK and You are not-OK, I'm not-OK and You are OK, I'm not-OK and You are not-OK). See also the "Transactional Analysis Bulletin", not listed here. Berne's initial quest was to define the decision, commitment, and position that a small person made and commits his life to proving is reasonable. Dr. Ernst carried this thinking forward and kept the work of Tom A. Harris M.D. in mind ( See "I'm OK, You're OK" by Dr. Harris). Dr. Ernst showed that the idea of OKness is much more than a fixed life position. A person's OKness or not-OKness is in every day events and their dynamic movements, eg. get-on-with, get-away-from, get-nowhere-with, and get-away-from. These terms describe dynamic movements in life with the expenditure of energy that occurs between individuals during their social encounters.

Another contribution by Dr. Ernst, initially presented in The Encounterer, was the theory of specific finite and describable moves within the fabric of social games. Specific moves in the colloquial are "Hook", "Angle", "Con", "Gimmick", and "Payoff". In more formal language (1) the "Hook" is the Tentative .... (more)

Note: Dr. Ernst passed away on June 16, 2009. He lived a long and full life.

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