Eric Berne a demanding pace of research, teaching in addition. He took an appointment in 1950 as Assistant Psychiatrist at Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, and simultaneously began serving as a Consultant to the Surgeon General of the US Army. In 1951, he accepted a position of Adjunct and Attending Psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration and Mental Hygiene Clinic, San Francisco. The years from 1964 to 1970 were restless ones for Berne. His personal life became chaotic and he focused on his writing. Berne created the theory of transactional analysis as a way to explain human behavior . Berne’s theory was based
Tim Berne Tim Berne Tim Berne (born 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. Berne he had no interest in playing an instrument until he attended Lewis & Clark College in Oregon. Hearing the album "Dogon A.D." (1972) by Julius Hemphill turned his attention toward jazz. He was a fan of rhythm and blues, and it seemed to him that Hemphill was playing jazz with the soulfulness of R&B. In 1974 he went to New York to find Hemphill, who gave him saxophone lessons and advice on how to manage his career. Berne started the record label Empire