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
Berne eXchange at SWX. Notable listed companies include: Berne eXchange Berne eXchange (BX) is the stock exchange of Bern, Switzerland. BX and the much larger SIX Swiss Exchange based in Zürich are the only stock exchanges in Switzerland. BX was founded in 1880 as the "Berne Bank Association" and formalised in 1884 as the "Berne Bourse Association" ("Berner Börsenverein", BBV) by all nine Bernese banks and fourteen private enterprises. It saw a relatively small volume of trading up until World War I. In 2002, BX introduced a fully electronic trading platform with an open, extensible application programming interface (API). Unlike its competitors