Almost half a century ago, Eric Berne elaborated his therapeutic framework in terms of the neurology of the day (Penfield, 1952); the perspective of his ego state, transaction, game and script frameworks; and the pragmatism of his emphasis on fun and “curing people” rather than on “doing group therapy.” Today, thanks to expanding knowledge of language use, neurophysiology, and genetics, we are on the threshold of understanding all of this in relation to what we are biologically capable of and within the superordinate framework of constructivism.
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