Register of the Eric Lennard Berne Papers, 1959-66
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Register of the Eric Lennard Berne Papers, 1959-66
Collection number: MSS 82-0
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- February 1983
© 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Eric Lennard Berne Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1959-66
Collection number: MSS 82-0
Creator: Berne, Eric Lennard, 1910-1970
Extent: 4 cartons, 2 boxes
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Received from the International Transactional Analysis Association, San Francisco, July 1982. The donation included as well
Dr. Berne's library (ca. 350 volumes, most with his annotations), housed at the Institute, which has been separately shelved;
see contents list. Tapes in carton 4 were acquired in August 1985.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Eric Lennard Berne Papers, MSS 82-0, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biography
Eric Berne was born in Montreal May 10, 1910, son of David Hillel and Sara Gordon Berne. His father, a physician, founded
the Herzl Dispensary; his mother was a journalist. Berne graduated BA from McGill University in 1931. He received his MD there
in 1935. He interned at the Yale Psychiatric Clinic 1936-38, and was a clinical assistant in psychiatry at Mc. Zion Hospital
in New York City, 1941-43. During the latter years he was also a student at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; 1940-43
he was in private practice in New York City and Norwalk, Connecticut. Berne was a member of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1943-46,
reaching the rank of major.
After WWII he came to the West Coast where he established a private practice in San Francisco, and Carmel, California. He
was a student at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute 1947-56. Berne was adjunct psychiatrist at Mt. Zion Hospital in
San Francisco 1952-70, lecturer on psychiatry at UCSF 1960-70, and consultant in group therapy to the McAuley Clinic, 1962-70.
He was a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and
a founder and president of the International Transactional Analysis Association.
Perhaps known best as the founder of transactional analysis, Dr. Berne wrote numerous works on psychoanalytic theory:
Games People Play being the most popular of his works. It was translated into 20 languages.
Dr. Berne had five children: Ellen, Peter, Ricky, Terry, Robin Way and Janice Way. He died Juy 15, 1970, at Monterey, California.
Scope and Content
Collection includes audio tapes, video tapes, lecture displays, photographs, reprints, correspondence.
Container List
Carton Ctn. 1
Audio tapes, 1959-65 and undated.
Physical Description: 37 tapes (7" reels)
Carton Ctn. 2
Audio tapes, 1963-66.
Physical Description: 14 tapes (7" reels), 8 tapes (5"reels)
Video tapes. 11 tapes (* numbers 5. and 7. not used/missing?)
Carton Ctn. 3, item 1
Fanita. English life scripts
item 3
H.D. Johns. Basic positions
item 4
Lois Johnson. Time structuring
item 6
Bob and Mary Boulding. Injunctions, decisions, redecision, and rackets
item 8
Pete Stunts. Organizations and groups
item 9
Steve Karpman. The drama triangle
item 10
Jack Dusay. Egograms and transactions
item 11
Haimowitz. Feelings, rubberbands and rackets
item 12
Mary Boulton. Women's scripts
Muriel James. Structure of a personality [unnumbered]
Carton Ctn. 4
Audio tapes, 1963-69 and undated.
Physical Description: 32 tapes (7" reels)
Box Box 1
Photographs, reprints, correspondence
Box Box 2
Reprints/programs with summaries of papers presented
Lectures displays
Physical Description: (one roll, 27")
