1910
ERIC BERNE Born Montreal Canada,.May)
? ? Younger sister born
1921
age 11 Father (doctor) dies of TB aged 38
1935
age 25 Degrees in Medicine/Surgery
Moves to US
Begins Psychiatry.
1940
age 30 First marriage - 2 children. Private+Hospital work.
1941
age 31 Begins Psychoanalysis Training under FEDERN
1943
age 33 Joins Army Med. psychiatry
Working with civilians
Begins writing (intuition)
1945
Working with discharge apps.
1946
age 36 Left Army
Finished Layman's Guide
Moved to California
1947
age 37 Analysand of Eric ERIKSON
3 jobs
Writing & Lecturing
1st Marriage Breakup (7 yrs)
1949
age 39 2nd Marriage (Dorothy)
2 more children +3 step-ch.
1950+
age 41+Beginning of SEMINARS
1956
age 46 refused as psychoanalyst
1958
age 48 TA ideas mostly thought up
1961
age 51 pub.TA in Psychotherapy
1963
age 53 Pub.Structure & Dynamics of Organisations & Groups
1964
age 54 Pub. Games People Play
2nd divorce (15 years)
1966
age 56 Pub.Principles of GroupTreatment
1967
age 57 3rd Marriage (Terri)
1970
age 60 3rd Divorce (3 years)
Writing Sex in Human Loving
Writing What Do You say ...
JULY 15 1970
Dies of Heart Attack
His theories can be checked against real world observations - Observability the cornerstone.
Structural model of EGO-STATES
Observable behaviours
Clarification of Parent
Categories of Ego-States
TRANSACTIONS & STROKES
Theory of social action
kinds of transactions
GAMES
Series of transactions leading to 'pay-off
Formula G
SCRIPT
Each person DECIDES in early childhood who he will live and how he will die, and that plan ...is called his SCRIPT
LIFE-POSITIONS
Especially healthy OK-OK position.
Conviction of worth of self and of others
FOUR FORCES OF LIFE
Fate;
Parents&Demons;
PHYSIS (drive for life);
Aspirations
Go to Short Reading List
Eric Berne by Ian Stewart - Sage Pubs - (clarifies TA theory and confusions of commentaries)
TA Counselling in Action by Ian Stewart Sage Pubs - (a how to use TA instruction book)
TA Today by Stewart and Joines - Lifespace Pubs - (up-to-date handbook with exercises for applying TA in own life)
Additional dates etc from Antje Gorges
I found some dates to Eric Berne, which are not on TAI-site.
He was born 10th. May 1910 as Eric Lennard Bernstein
His father was David Hiller Bernstein
His mother was Sarah Gordon Bernstein
His sister Grace is five years younger, so she should born 1915.
Betweeen 1938-39 he became an American citizen and shortened his name to Eric Berne
His first wife's name is Elinor.
1947 he completed his first book "The mind in Action" and signed a contract for its publication with Simon and Schuster of New York
Eric Berne is buried at the El Carmelo Cemetery in Pacific Grove California Section K, Block R, Lot 10, Site 1 Picture of Grave
His complete history you can find under on ITAA site
Good pictures of Eric Berne http://www.ta-tutor.com/zeribrn.html
Eric Berne's last public speech given 20th. June 1970 you can find on TAJnet.
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