Eric Berne Cyprian St. Cyr ("Cyprian Sincere") in whimsical articles in the "Transactional Analysis Bulletin". Berne was married three times. His first wife was Elinor McRae. They married in 1942, had two children, and divorced acrimoniously in 1945. In 1949 he married Dorothy DeMass Way, with whom he also had two children before their divorce in 1964. After his popular success, Eric married a third time, to Torre Peterson in 1967. The couple took up residence in Carmel, California, where he wrote, but he continued some clinical work in San Francisco. This marriage also ended in divorce, in early 1970. Berne died
Dagmar Berne Dagmar Berne Georgina Dagmar Berne (16 November 1866 – 22 August 1900) was an Australian medical doctor and the first female student to study medicine in Australia. Berne was born in Bega, New South Wales in 1866, the eldest daughter among eight siblings. Her father, who was a migrant to Australia from Denmark, died when Berne was young. He was attempting to save a drowning man in the Bega River but drowned himself. Her mother's second husband, a pastoralist, died when Berne was a teenager, prompting the family to move to Sydney. Berne's mother (Georgina Kenyon) intended to give all