Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior.
26 Facts About Eric Berne
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Eric Berne believed that insight could be better discovered by analyzing patients' social transactions.
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Eric Berne was born on May 10,1910, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as Eric Lennard Bernstein.
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Eric Berne was the son of David Hillel Bernstein, MD, a general practitioner, and Sarah Gordon Bernstein, a professional writer and editor.
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Eric Berne's only sibling, his sister Grace, was born five years later.
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Eric Berne was close to his father and spoke fondly of how he accompanied his father on rounds, traveling by horse-pulled sleigh on cold Montreal winters to visit patients.
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Eric Berne encouraged her son to follow in his father's footsteps and to study medicine.
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Eric Berne came to the United States in 1935 when he began an internship at Englewood Hospital in New Jersey.
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From 1938 to 1940, Eric Berne was an assistant physician at Ring Sanitarium, Arlington Heights, Massachusetts.
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In 1943, during World War II, Eric Berne joined the United States Army Medical Corps and served as a psychiatrist.
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Eric Berne rose from the rank of Lieutenant, to Captain, and then to Major.
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Eric Berne lived in a four-bedroom, three bath Victorian house on the eastern side of Carpenter Street, in the second house located south from 2nd Avenue.
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Eric Berne resumed his psychoanalytic training that he had begun in New York City, prior to the War, at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
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Eric Berne took an appointment in 1950 as Assistant Psychiatrist at Mt.
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Eric Berne created the theory of transactional analysis as a way to explain human behavior.
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Eric Berne's theory was based on the ideas of Freud but his were distinctly different.
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Eric Berne believed that insight could be better discovered by analyzing patients' social transactions.
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Eric Berne mapped interpersonal relationships to three ego-states of the individuals involved: the Parent, Adult, and Child state.
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Eric Berne then investigated communications between individuals based on the current state of each.
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Eric Berne called these interpersonal interactions transactions and used the label games to refer to certain patterns of transactions which popped up repeatedly in everyday life.
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In 1956, after 15 years of psychoanalytic training, Eric Berne was refused admission to the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute as a fully-fledged psychoanalyst.
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Eric Berne interpreted the request for several more years of training as a rejection and decided to walk away from psychoanalysis.
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Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships is a bestselling 1964 book by Eric Berne that has sold more than five million copies.
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Eric Berne had an irrepressible sense of humour, which was particularly evident in his writing.
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Eric Berne continued to write under pseudonyms such as Cyprian St Cyr in whimsical articles in the Transactional Analysis Bulletin.
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Eric Berne died of a heart attack in Carmel on July 15,1970.