Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Individual and Social Psyc

<p>Reprint of original 1961 edition.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy</em><strong><em> </em></strong>by Eric Berne, M.D. introduced psychiatrists and analysts to a new way of understanding the motivations and social interactions of their clients and patients. By using this model, Berne believed that therapists could help their patients to better understand themselves and improve their relationships and their lives.</p><p><br></p><p>Canadian-born psychiatrist Eric Berne (b. May 10, 1910 - d. July 15, 1970) spent his early career working with patients in sanitariums before serving as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he set up a private practice, in addition to conducting his own research and serving as a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration and Mental Hygiene Clinic in San Francisco.</p><p><br></p><p>After being denied admittance to the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in 1956, Berne was spurred to make his own mark on the field. He wrote several papers that year as he developed his theories, and he was invited to present his article "Transactional Analysis: A New and Effective Group Therapy" to the Western Regional Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles in 1957.</p><p><br></p><p>The next step was to put these ideas down into a book - 1961's <em>Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy</em>. Berne's theory, while built on a foundation of Freudian principles, was clearly d