Eric Berne and Effective Method of Group Therapy," which was presented by invitation at the 1957 Western Regional Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles. With the publication of this paper in the 1958 issue of the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Berne's new method of diagnosis and treatment, transactional analysis, became a permanent part of the psychotherapeutic literature. In addition to restating his concepts of ego states and structural analysis, the 1958 paper added the important new features of transactional analysis proper (i.e. the analysis of transactions), games, and scripts. His seminar group from the 1950s developed the term
Albert Moll (Canadian psychiatrist) Albert Moll (Canadian psychiatrist) Albert E. Moll was a Canadian psychiatrist who pioneered the day treatment of psychiatric patients. Dr. Moll was educated at McGill University, earning a degree in law before studying medicine. He became the Chief Psychiatrist at the Allan Memorial Institute and Chief of Staff at the Montreal General Hospital, establishing the first inpatient psychiatric unit there. Moll lectured at McGill where he was considered one of the leading academic psychiatrists at the time. Besides his work in day treatment options in the treatment of psychiatric patients he also espoused a night treatment option. Dr. Moll was