Achieving Emotional Literacy: A Personal Program to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

by Claude Steiner and Claude M. Steiner

Book Overview

Emotional literacy is the ability to understand one's own feelings and to empathize with others in a way that enhances living. In this work Steiner shows how emotional intelligence can be developed by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380975912
• ISBN13: 9780380975914
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

If the title speaks to you, the book will likely be of benefit

I really got something a lot from this book. While I have thought a lot about such matters and come around quite a bit already, I still have work to do to improve the way I live and what the consequences of my choices, intentions, attitudes, and motivations. Frankly, it is hard for me to understand how someone could give such a work 1 star. To me that alone would be an indication of someone who likley needed it most. Clearly no one was harmed in the writing of this book. But, everyone gets an opinion and mine is certainly not always right. But here I feel pretty confident few that are really looking for answers will not benefit from reading this. The world has a lot to learn about the subject in this book. I know I do.

Comprehensive, scholarly and digestable.

This book describes the fundamental ways of being that we must get right in life if we are not to cause misery for ourselves or those around us. Becoming emotionally literate is a process of 1) Opening the heart 2) Surveying and traversing the emotional landscape 3) Taking responsibility I love the quoate "Like an explorer discovering an exotic land, I was amazed and captivated by the emotional landscape within and around me" We learn to question our image of the powerful person as one who commands, is detached and collected. To an image of one who has rich, satisfying relationships and fruitful work. We learn how to avoid cynicism, emptiness and isolation. Steiner's methodology is Transactional Analysis which "analyzes human relationships by focusing on the precise content of people's interactions" The emphasis is on what goes on between people (social transactions) and learning how to behave differently with others thereby changing your life. The vocabulary consists of 3 ego states... 1) the Child (emotional, creative part), the Parent (our judgemental, internal bully) and the Adult (our rational, logic part. The methodolgy also describes the stroke economy (positive or negative strokes). Stokes can be "physical or verbal and are defined as the basis unit of human recognition".

The importance of an Scientific Emocional Education Book

Claude Steiner is a recognized writer in this théme. Actually we have some opinions of emotional aspects of the human being, most of them not related to scientific psychological concepts. Steiner gives to teachers and health staff a new way to recognize the human potential to love and truth. Reading this book we really can learn and teach others: how to stay with persons,in confidance and respect.

The human is ruled by emotions. If yours r out of control th

I read this book twice in 1 year. The first time gave me an outline and the second a start of understanding. I will read it again. I wish I could get people close to me to read it too but they r on their own learning curve. This book is 1 of many self help books I have read and I recommend it to many people every week.For me it is a must for every person in the world. The way to stop war is for every 1 to read this book and acheive emotional intelligence. Thank you Claude for a brilliant personal manual for life.

A look at developing leadership by using emotional literacy

This book explores the thesis that leadership is more a matter of emotional literacy than intelligence or education. Think of people you know who possess leadership qualities: it is not their intelligence or education you are responding to - it is their emotional literacy; their passion, honesty and ability to be authentic. All people interested in developing their leadership skills should put this book in their library.