Karpman drama triangle Berne at the time. Eric Berne, a Canadian-born psychiatrist, created the theory of transactional analysis, in the middle of the 20th century, as a way of explaining human behavior. Berne's theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud but was distinctly different. Freudian psychotherapists focused on talk therapy as a way of gaining insight to their patients' personalities. Berne believed that insight could be better discovered by analyzing patients’ social transactions. "Games" in transactional analysis refers to a series of transactions that is complementary (reciprocal), ulterior, and proceeds towards a predictable outcome. In this context, the Karpman
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