Afterburn (psychotherapy) Afterburn (psychotherapy) Afterburn is a psychological term coined by Eric Berne, who defined it as "the period of time before a past event is assimilated". Eric Berne, the founding father of transactional analysis, used the term "afterburn" to indicate the effect an atypical past event continues to exert on a person's daily schedule, activities and mental state even "after" it is over: to "those occasions when it disturbs normal patterns for an appreciable period, rather than being assimilated into them or excluded from them by repression and other psychological mechanisms". For Berne, afterburn is the flip side of reachback, which
Maurice Craig (psychiatrist) psychiatrist to Virginia Woolf for twenty-two years, and to the future King Edward VIII. In 1905, the first edition of his ground-breaking reference work "Psychological Medicine: A Manual on Mental Diseases for Practitioners and Students" was published and, in 1922, he founded the National Council for Mental Hygiene. In 1930, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the International Committee for Mental Hygiene. Sir Maurice Craig died on 6 January 1935. Maurice Craig (psychiatrist) Sir Maurice Craig KBE FRCP (1866-1935), was a British psychiatrist and pioneer in the treatment of mental illness. Craig was born on 29 May 1866 and educated at