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Eric Berne

出生: May 10, 1910 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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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.

传记与作者历程

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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名言

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A game is an ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions progressing to a well-defined, predictable outcome
-Games People Play
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The unit of social intercourse is called a transaction
-Games People Play
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Parent, Adult, and Child are not concepts, like Superego, Ego, and Id, or the Jungian constructs, but phenomenological realities
-Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
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It may demand thinking, but I hope it will not require deciphering
-What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
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to offer a systematic framework for the therapy of ailing groups and organizations
-Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups
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The most important things I owned were in my head
-A Montreal Childhood
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everything in my books I learned from my patients
-Dr. Berne Plays the Celebrity Game
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If I have a concept of God, the main thing is that He has a sense of humor
-Dr. Berne Plays the Celebrity Game
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The apprehension of dental pain depends primarily on general conditions
-Apprehension and Pain

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"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"

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