Eric Berne

Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who developed transactional analysis.

Born in 1910 as Eric Lennard Bernstein in Montreal, he was raised by his mother after his father's death in 1921.

Berne graduated from McGill University and earned his M.D., C.M. in 1935.

He studied psychoanalysis at Yale University and changed his name to Eric Berne in 1943.

Berne's career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of Major.

After the war, he continued his work in psychiatry, becoming best known for creating transactional analysis and writing under various pseudonyms.