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Eric Berne


Born
in Montreal, Canada
May 10, 1910

Died
July 15, 1970

Genre
Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Transactional Analysis

Influences
Sigmund Freud ...more


Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis. Eric was born on May 10, 1910 as Eric Lennard Bernstein in Montreal, Canada.He and his sister Grace, who was five years younger than Eric, were the children of a physician and a writer, David and Sara Gordon Bernstein.David Bernstein died in 1921, and the children were raised by their mother.

Bernstein attended Montreal's McGill University, graduating in 1931 and earning his M.D., C.M. in 1935.While at McGill he wrote for several student newspapers using pseudonyms. He followed graduation with a residency in psychiatry at Yale University, where he studied psychoanalysis under Paul Federn.

In 1943 he changed his legal name to Eric Berne.He continue ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 47,747 ratings · 2,458 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors
Games People Play
3.71 avg rating — 42,588 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions
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What Do You Say After You S...
4.05 avg rating — 2,261 ratings — published 1964 — 66 editions
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Игры, в которые играют люди...
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Transactional Analysis in P...
4.11 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 1961 — 52 editions
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A Layman's Guide to Psychia...
4.05 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1957 — 33 editions
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Sex in Human Loving
3.61 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions
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Beyond Games and Scripts
4.14 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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The Structure and Dynamics ...
4.06 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1963 — 25 editions
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The Mind in Action
4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Intuition and Ego States: T...
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“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
― Eric Berne
tags: birds, discrimination, equality, inspiration, life, loss-of-wonder, wisdom
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“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play
tags: awareness
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“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”
― Eric Berne
tags: civilization, frogs, prince
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