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Eric Berne Biography

Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was 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 was 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 game theory to the field of psychiatry, along with the famed psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Thomas Szasz.

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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.

Alone, Bear, Heart, Men, World

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Awareness, Here And Now, Living, Past, Requires

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.

Bread, Grow, Half, Loaf, Love Is, Sooner

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.

Believe, Children, Die, Early, Fate

A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

Health, Healthy, Persons, Unhealthy, Whoopee

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.

Running, Long, Doe, Winner, Contract, World

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

Headlines, Life, Morning, Think, Thinking

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Boys, Concerned, Equality, Moment, Nature, Sparrow

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

Hero, Man, Men, Psychiatrist, Wife

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.

Design, Designs, Giving, Life, Persons, Power

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.

Loser, Lost, Rarely, Thinking, Time

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.

Arrival, Choices, Filling, Life, Long, Time

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Civilization, Civilizing, Frogs, Knowing Who You Are, Process, Sad