The author describes some of her personal transactions with Eric Berne before and after training at the Carmel TA Institute in 1964; the role of her mentor, David Kupfer, in sustaining her after some of the difficulties she had with Berne; and her retroactive “analysis” of Berne's three ego states as she had experienced them in action.
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