Eric Berne

Eric Berne is a Canadian-born psychiatrist and the founder of transactional analysis, a theory of social interactions to explain human behavior. His theory was built on Freudian principles, but differentiated by how he analyzed patients’ social transactions for insights. Berne was the first psychiatrist to apply game theory to the field of psychiatry. Berne became an American citizen in 1939. In 1949, he was admitted as a Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association.