Eric Berne

Eric Berne (Montreal, may 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian psychiatrist and founder of the transactional analysis. He specialized in group therapy and in social psychiatry, and strove to heal people instead of progress in treatment.

He developed his own theory, which he published for the first time in 1958: Transactional Analysis, A New and Effective Method of Group Therapy. He is the author of several books, including "Games People Play" best known. ==Biography[ Edit] == Eric Berne was born in 1910 as Eric Leonard Bernstein, the son of doctor David Hiller Bernstein and Sarah Gordon Bernstein, a professional writer and editor. His sister Grace was born five years later. His parents were immigrants from Poland and Russia. Both parents were graduated from McGill University. Dr. Bernstein has died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Mrs. Bernstein is then to maintain herself and her two children to go to work as editor and writer. Eric was encouraged to follow in his father's footsteps and went to study medicine . He received an M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) and [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DCh.M.%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 ch. m.] (Master of Surgery) of the McGill University Medical School in 1935.

He worked about two years in the psychiatric clinic of the Yale University School of Medicine. In that time – about 1938 – he became an American citizen and he shortened his name to Eric Leonard Bernstein's Eric Berne. His first appointment was as a Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry at Mt. Zion Hospital, New York City. In addition, he began a private practice in Norwalk (Connecticut). There he met and married his first wife, Elinor, with whom he has two children, Ellen and David.

Because of the demand for psychiatrists in the army during the Second World War, Dr. Eric Berne served from 1943-1946 in the u.s. Army, where he is promoted from Lieutenant to major. After this service time decided to move to now divorced, Berne, Carmel (California). He resumed his psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

He remarried about 1949 with Dorothy DeMass Way. The couple had two sons, Ricky and Terry.