Eric Berne
Mapped how our inner Parent, Adult and Child talk.
Creator of transactional analysis, a model of personality built on Parent, Adult and Child ego states and the repetitive "games" people play.
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The moment a little boy asks which is a jay and which a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds.
Who they were
Eric Berne (born Eric Lennard Bernstein in Montreal) earned his MD at McGill and trained in psychiatry and psychoanalysis at Yale. After becoming a US citizen and serving in the Army Medical Corps, he developed transactional analysis in the 1950s. His 1964 bestseller Games People Play brought the approach to a mass audience, and he founded the International Transactional Analysis Association.
Terms they cared about
Ideas worth knowing
Their techniques
How the work was done
Their big idea
Transactional Analysis
We communicate from Parent, Adult and Child ego states and run scripted "games."
The approach they founded
Transactional Analysis
Maps how we speak from Parent, Adult, and Child — and the repeated "games" that shape our relationships.
Questions in their spirit
What they’d ask you
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Carry the idea forward
Berne — What they’d ask you
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.