Education
Harris received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas in 1938, and his M. Doctorate. from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1940.
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Harris received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas in 1938, and his M. Doctorate. from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1940.
The book was a bestseller and its name became a cliché during the 1970s. After graduation, he joined the Navy as a medical international He was aboard the submarine tender United States Ship Pelias (AS-14) when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and sustained permanent hearing loss as a result.
Upon completion of his internship in 1942, Harris began his training in Psychiatry at Saint Elizabeth"s Hospital in Washington District of Columbia He returned to the Navy after completing his residency.
Toward the end of the war, he served as Chief Psychiatric Officer on the hospital ship United States Ship Haven (Animal Husbandry-12).
Harris ultimately became Chief of the Psychiatry Branch of the Navy, and ended his service as a Commander in 1954. Following his retirement, Harris became Chief of the Department of Institutions in Washington state. During this time, he played a critical role in defusing a riot at the maximum security prison in Walla Walla.
However, he soon grew tired of bureaucratic work, and opened a private psychiatric practice in Sacramento, California in 1956.
He was also a founding member of Berne"s San Francisco Transactional Analysis Seminar, which met weekly for over a decade, and which developed the main concepts of TA. A Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association, Harris was an early advocate for group therapy and TA in preference to traditional psychoanalysis, for which he was trained by Harry Stack Sullivan.