Description
This collection includes audio recordings on 51 audiocassette tapes and 14 CDs. Recordings were created by the International
Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA). Content relates to meetings of the San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars (SFSPS)
and includes group therapy sessions, reports of conferences and presentations, and discussions of transactional analysis.
The collection also includes seven introductory lectures on audiocassette on transactional analysis (Transactional Analysis
101) by Eric Berne. The recordings were copied to 14 CDs in 2006. Original recordings date from 1963-1970.
Background
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.
Extent
1.3 Linear feet
(2 boxes)
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the
Library & Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Availability
Collection is open for research.