Eric Berne intuition, which he began writing in 1949. Even at this early juncture and while still working to become a psychoanalyst, his writings challenged Freudian concepts of the unconscious. In 1956, after 15 years of psychoanalytic training, Berne was refused admission to the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute as a fully-fledged psychoanalyst. He interpreted the request for several more years of training as a rejection and decided to walk away from psychoanalysis. Before the end of the year, he had written two seminal papers, both published in 1957. A few months later, he wrote a third article, titled "Transactional Analysis: A New
Berne frank Berne frank The Frank was the currency of the Swiss canton of Berne between 1798 and 1850. It was subdivided into 10 "Batzen", each of 10 "Rappen". The Frank was the currency of the Helvetian Republic from 1798, replacing the Thaler in Berne. The Helvetian Republic ceased issuing coins in 1803. Berne issued coins between 1808 and 1836. In 1850, the Swiss franc was introduced, with Swiss francs = 1 Berne Frank. Billon coins were issued in denominations of 1, 2, and 5 Rappen, and 1 Batzen, with silver coins for and 5 Batzen and 1, 2 and 4 Franken.