Discusses E. Berne's development of ego states, transactional game theory, and description of script decision and it's impact on the life course as being his major contributions. The historical development of these are described within the context of the author's and others' experiences with Berne as transactional analysis evolved. Berne's emphasis on structural explanation (rather than on those derived from an energy theory), his failure to develop a script reversal technique which would satisfy his own criteria of conciseness and theoretical consistency, and an apparent dependence upon content analysis are viewed as the three major limitations of Berne's work.
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