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 eXchange Berne eXchange Berne eXchange (BX) is the stock exchange of Bern, Switzerland. BX and the much larger SIX Swiss Exchange based in Zürich are the only stock exchanges in Switzerland. BX was founded in 1880 as the "Berne Bank Association" and formalised in 1884 as the "Berne Bourse Association" ("Berner Börsenverein", BBV) by all nine Bernese banks and fourteen private enterprises. It saw a relatively small volume of trading up until World War I. In 2002, BX introduced a fully electronic trading platform with an open, extensible application programming interface (API). Unlike its competitors in Basel, Geneva and Zurich, it