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 Union Berne Union represents 84 member companies from 73 countries worldwide. These include government-backed official export credit agencies, private credit and political risk insurers and multilateral institutions. In 2016, Berne Union members collectively provided payment risk protection to banks, exporters and investors amounting to US$1.87 trillion. This total business volume represents cover of approximately 11% of total world cross border trade for goods and services, as recorded by WTO figures. Since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008, Berne Union members have paid claims of approximately US$40 billion. The Berne union was founded in 1934 by private and state