Eric Berne and Effective Method of Group Therapy," which was presented by invitation at the 1957 Western Regional Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles. With the publication of this paper in the 1958 issue of the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Berne's new method of diagnosis and treatment, transactional analysis, became a permanent part of the psychotherapeutic literature. In addition to restating his concepts of ego states and structural analysis, the 1958 paper added the important new features of transactional analysis proper (i.e. the analysis of transactions), games, and scripts. His seminar group from the 1950s developed the term
Berne Union Berne Union represents 84 member companies from 73 countries worldwide. These include government-backed official export credit agencies, private credit and political risk insurers and multilateral institutions. In 2016, Berne Union members collectively provided payment risk protection to banks, exporters and investors amounting to US$1.87 trillion. This total business volume represents cover of approximately 11% of total world cross border trade for goods and services, as recorded by WTO figures. Since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008, Berne Union members have paid claims of approximately US$40 billion. The Berne union was founded in 1934 by private and state