The materials in this collection were created by Eric L. Berne (1910-1970), a San Francisco-based psychiatrist and author, and by the International Transactional Analysis Association. The collection also includes one scrapbook and one article written by Berne's father, David Hillel Bernstein, M.D. Records relate to Berne's family life, education, and early travels; his professional and creative writing; and his psychiatric practice and development of the theory of Transactional Analysis (TA). Materials include correspondence, diaries, legal records, certificates, clippings, notebooks and scrapbooks, manuscripts and typescripts, patient notes, photographs, audio-visual recordings, and artifacts. Materials in the collection date from 1904-2007.

Eric L. Berne (1910-1970) was a practicing psychiatrist, lecturer and author. Best known for his development of the theory of Transactional Analysis, Berne published dozens of scholarly articles in the field of psychoanalysis and was the author of eight major books, including the bestseller Games People Play. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Corresponding Member of the Indian Psychiatric Society, and a member of the American Medical Association and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He served as a consultant in psychiatry at Mt. Zion Hospital and at the McAuley Neuropsychiatric Institute (St. Mary's Hospital) in San Francisco, and was an Associate Psychiatrist and Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

13.0 Linear Feet (17 document boxes, 4 oversized flat boxes)

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Collection is open for research.