Eric Berne
Born: May 10, 1910 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded transactional analysis, a framework for understanding personality and social interaction. He is best known for the bestselling book Games People Play, which brought transactional analysis to a mass audience and strongly influenced psychotherapy, counseling, and popular psychology.
Biography & Author's Journey
Eric Berne, born Eric Lennard Bernstein in Montreal on May 10, 1910, grew up in a household shaped by both medicine and writing. His father was a physician and his mother a writer and editor, a combination that helps explain the dual character of his later work: clinically minded, yet unusually readable. He studied medicine at McGill University, earning his degree in 1935, and then moved to the United States for psychiatric training. After becoming an American citizen, he adopted the name Eric Berne. Service as an Army psychiatrist during the Second World War, followed by years of psychoanalytic study and practice, pushed him toward a central question that would define his career: how do people actually relate to one another in ordinary life?
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Community Voices
"Eric Berne: American psychologist"
— Britannica
"Psychiatrist Eric Berne, the father of Transactional Analysis and author of the best seller Games People Play, often referred to the afterburn"
— Psychology Today
"Eric Berne was a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with a broad range of knowledge, relentless curiosity, and no small amount of rebellion"
— Transactional Analysis Journal
"So writes Dr. Eric Berne, a 55-year-old San Francisco psychoanalyst, in a thin scientific volume entitled Games People Play"
— LIFE
"Eric Berne was a 20th century psychologist who developed and popularized the theory of transactional analysis"
— GoodTherapy
"Eric Berne: Adding a psychological edge, he writes the rules in Games People Play"
— The Washington Post
"Eric Berne, the originator of transactional analysis, was a Canadian-born psychiatrist"
— SAGE
