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
Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.
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.
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
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.
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
Love is nature's psychotherapy.
A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.