Eric Berne
Eric Berne
Eric Bernewas a Canadian-born psychiatrist who, in the middle of the 20th century, created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior . Berne’s theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud but were distinctly different. Freudian psychotherapists focused on talk therapy as a way of gaining insight to their patient’s personalities. Berne believed that insight could be better discovered by analyzing patients’ social transactions. Berne was among the first psychiatrists to apply...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth10 May 1910
CountryUnited States of America
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.
Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.