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Eric Berne - The Originator of Transactional Analysis
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Eric Berne - The Originator of Transactional Analysis
Eric Berne, MD was a Canadian born American citizen. He was born in May 1910 and died in July 1970. His father was a general practitioner and his mother a professional writer. His father died when Berne was only eleven years old. The traits of his parents made Berne a doctor and a hard-working writer.
Eric Berne acquired degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He learnt Psychiatric Practice at the Yale School of Medicine and moved to occupy the post of Assistant Psychiatrist at the Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco.
He trained under eminent psychoanalysts Eric Erickson, Paul Federn and Eduardo Weiss. His training was in abeyance during his brief stint as a doctor in the US Army Medical Corps. He left the army in 1946 as a Major.
Berne's application for membership of the prestigious San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute filed by him in 1956 was rejected. The reason for the rejection may have been based on Berne introducing a revolutionary shift in the method of practising psychotherapy. Berne himself was unhappy using orthodox psychoanalysis methodology in treatment. It was long-drawn, expensive, did not provide early relief, and did not offer cure as an outcome. In contrast transactional analysis aimed to enable people to live their lives in new ways; to enable them to recover their capacity to live their lives as princes and princesses instead of as frogs; and to enable people to close the old show and put up a new show on the road.
Berne began conducting regular evening Group Therapy Programs in the 1950s. A group of clinicians presented papers and exchanged ideas with the theme social psychiatry. These seminars provided a fertile ground for Berne to present his ideas and put them to test. These seminars came to be known as the San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars. They were formally constituted in 1960. It was in 1964 that they were christened as the International Transactional Analysis Association. Concurrently the San Francisco Social Psychiarty Seminars were renamed as San Francisco Transactional Analysis Seminars and function till date as an association associated with the ITAA.
Transactional Analysis aims to 'cure first analyse later'. It also provides a personality and transactions centric approach to treatment. Berne deserves credit for offering people to be able to live life on their own terms - healthily, effectively and safely. Today, transactional analysis serves as a tool to be used by clinicians, trainers and professionals from all streams of practice.
Berne began conducting regular evening Group Therapy Programs in the 1950s. A group of clinicians presented papers and exchanged ideas with the theme social psychiatry. These seminars provided a fertile ground for Berne to present his ideas and put them to test. These seminars came to be known as the San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars. They were formally constituted in 1960. It was in 1964 that they were christened as the International Transactional Analysis Association. Concurrently the San Francisco Social Psychiarty Seminars were renamed as San Francisco Transactional Analysis Seminars and function till date as an association associated with the ITAA.
Transactional Analysis aims to 'cure first analyse later'. It also provides a personality and transactions centric approach to treatment. Berne deserves credit for offering people to be able to live life on their own terms - healthily, effectively and safely. Today, transactional analysis serves as a tool to be used by clinicians, trainers and professionals from all streams of practice.
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