Aspiration or adaptation?: An unresolved tension in Eric Berne’s basic beliefs

doi:10.4324/9780429464430-9

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Aspiration or adaptation?: An unresolved tension in Eric Berne’s basic beliefs

ABSTRACT

This chapter draws upon Eric Berne’s memoir of his childhood and adolescence to discuss the lifelong impact of his father’s premature death from tuberculosis and his mother’s deepening depression.