PSYCHOLOGIST

Eric Berne

1910 - 1970

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Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who 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 and Carl Jung 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Berne is the 40th most popular psychologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Canada (down from 19th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Psychologist.

Eric Berne is most famous for his theory of Transactional Analysis.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Eric Berne ranks 40 out of 235. Before him are Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Hermann Rorschach, Jerome Bruner, Hans Eysenck, and Albert Ellis. After him are John Bowlby, Lawrence Kohlberg, Sabina Spielrein, Donald Winnicott, Wolfgang Köhler, and Alfred Kinsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Eric Berne ranks 25. Before him are David Niven, Walter Schellenberg, Paul Flory, Kurt Meyer, Gerda Taro, and Chiang Ching-kuo. After him are Katherine Oppenheimer, Michel Aflaq, Helenio Herrera, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ronald Coase, and Ludwig Stumpfegger. Among people deceased in 1970, Eric Berne ranks 28. Before him are Semyon Timoshenko, Rudolf Carnap, Heinrich Brüning, Alfred Newman, Jochen Rindt, and Napoleon Hill. After him are Artem Mikoyan, Vladimir Propp, Leslie Groves, Hugh Dowding, Bruce McLaren, and Italo Gariboldi.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Eric Berne ranks 30 out of 1,622. Before him are Richard E. Taylor (1929), David Cronenberg (1943), Alice Munro (1931), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), and Ralph M. Steinman (1943). After him are David Johnston (1941), Frederick Banting (1891), Bryan Adams (1959), Neil Young (1945), Sidney Altman (1939), and Willard Boyle (1924).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Canada

Among psychologists born in Canada, Eric Berne ranks 3. Before him are Albert Bandura (1925), and Jordan Peterson (1962). After him are Donald O. Hebb (1904), Steven Pinker (1954), Robert D. Hare (1934), and Gordon Neufeld (1947).

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