Eric Berne on the ideas of Freud but were distinctly different. Freudian psychotherapists focused on patient’s personalities. Berne believed that insight could be better discovered by analyzing patients’ social transactions. Berne mapped interpersonal relationships to three ego-states of the individuals involved: the "Parent, Adult," and "Child" state. He then investigated communications between individuals based on the current state of each. He called these interpersonal interactions "transactions" and used the label "games" to refer to certain patterns of transactions which popped up repeatedly in everyday life. The origins of transactional analysis can be traced to the first five of Berne’s six articles on
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