Eric Berne a demanding pace of research, teaching in addition. He took an appointment in 1950 as Assistant Psychiatrist at Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, and simultaneously began serving as a Consultant to the Surgeon General of the US Army. In 1951, he accepted a position of Adjunct and Attending Psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration and Mental Hygiene Clinic, San Francisco. The years from 1964 to 1970 were restless ones for Berne. His personal life became chaotic and he focused on his writing. Berne created the theory of transactional analysis as a way to explain human behavior . Berne’s theory was based
Psychological biblical criticism as well, by informing the field of religious studies, the psychotherapeutic encounter, and the psychology of religion. Hence, proponents of psychological biblical criticism argue that it has the potential of crossing the gap between psychology and religion, providing a platform for dialogue without reducing religion to mere drives and internal objects, but by discussing the aspects of this very human mode of meaning (Ellens, 2004). There is a website sponsored by the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature which is devoted to psychological biblical criticism at www.psybibs.org. Psychological biblical criticism Psychological biblical criticism is a