Afterburn (psychotherapy) Afterburn (psychotherapy) Afterburn is a psychological term coined by Eric Berne, who defined it as "the period of time before a past event is assimilated". Eric Berne, the founding father of transactional analysis, used the term "afterburn" to indicate the effect an atypical past event continues to exert on a person's daily schedule, activities and mental state even "after" it is over: to "those occasions when it disturbs normal patterns for an appreciable period, rather than being assimilated into them or excluded from them by repression and other psychological mechanisms". For Berne, afterburn is the flip side of reachback, which
Robin Hunter (psychiatrist) Robin Hunter (psychiatrist) Robin C. A. Hunter (c. March 2, 1919 – March 9, 1987) was a Jamaican Canadian psychiatrist who was Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Queen's University and University of Toronto, as well as Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. There, Hunter founded their clinical program for transsexual people. Hunter was born in Jamaica and came to Canada in 1940. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He was shot down over occupied Europe and spent four years as a prisoner of war after being processed at Dulag Luft.