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
Suzanne Berne Britain's prestigious Orange Prize. Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl, the book chronicles a child's murder in a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal. "A Perfect Arrangement" tells of the complex and increasingly disturbing relationship between a normal suburban family and their exceptionally perfect nanny. "The Ghost at the Table" explores the dramatic territory between two sisters' differing versions of their shared history. Suzanne Berne Suzanne Berne (born 1961 Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist known for her foreboding character studies involving unexpected domestic and psychological drama in bucolic suburban settings.