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MSS 2013-19 Eric Berne papers, digital items on Calisphere

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Dates

Creation: 1904-2007
Creation: 1930 - 1970

Language of Materials

Materials primarily in English.

Travel ephemera in Series I, Personal Files, contains materials in Italian, German, Turkish, Dutch, French, Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Hungarian.

Books transferred from this collection to the Eric Berne Rare Books collection are written in German, Italian, Swedish, Bosnian, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Japanese, and French.

Extent

13.0 Linear Feet (17 document boxes, 4 oversized flat boxes)

Additional Description

Abstract

The materials in this collection were created by Eric L. Berne (1910-1970), a San Francisco-based psychiatrist and author, and by the International Transactional Analysis Association. The collection also includes one scrapbook and one article written by Berne's father, David Hillel Bernstein, M.D. Records relate to Berne's family life, education, and early travels; his professional and creative writing; and his psychiatric practice and development of the theory of Transactional Analysis (TA). Materials include correspondence, diaries, legal records, certificates, clippings, notebooks and scrapbooks, manuscripts and typescripts, patient notes, photographs, audio-visual recordings, and artifacts. Materials in the collection date from 1904-2007.