Eric Berne



Eric Berne (born Eric Lennard Bernstein May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was an American psychiatrist and writer, best known as the creator of Transactional analysis, and as the author of Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relations (1964).

Quotes

 * 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.
 * Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relations (1964)


 * 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.
 * What Do You Say After You Say Hello? (1973)


 * A healthy person goes "Yes," "No," and "Whoopee!" An unhealthy person goes "Yes, but," "No, but," and "No whoopee."
 * Quoted in They Shoot Managers, Don't They? by Terry L. Paulson, pg. 3


 * No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
 * Quoted in a review of Berne's book Sex in Human Loving (1963), "Talks on Sex by the Gamesman" by David Reuben, M.D., Life, Vol. 69, No. 25, 18 December 1970.