Abstract The materials in this collection were created by Eric L. Berne (1910-1970), a San Francisco-based psychiatrist and author, and by the San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminars (SFSPS). Records document Berne's creative writings and his writings and lectures on psychiatry and psychoanalysis, his development of the Transactional Analysis approach to group therapy, and his study of worldwide cultural psychiatry practices. Formats include correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, and notes....