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 frank Berne frank The Frank was the currency of the Swiss canton of Berne between 1798 and 1850. It was subdivided into 10 "Batzen", each of 10 "Rappen". The Frank was the currency of the Helvetian Republic from 1798, replacing the Thaler in Berne. The Helvetian Republic ceased issuing coins in 1803. Berne issued coins between 1808 and 1836. In 1850, the Swiss franc was introduced, with Swiss francs = 1 Berne Frank. Billon coins were issued in denominations of 1, 2, and 5 Rappen, and 1 Batzen, with silver coins for and 5 Batzen and 1, 2 and 4 Franken.