Trapped in the script: transactional analysis and narcissistic wounds of Eric Berne — is there a connection?

The article explores the possible relationship between Eric Bern’s life story, his script, and the development of transactional analysis. Hereby the nature of narcissism is briefly revealed, and how the meaningful losses as losing father, anti-Semitism, rejection the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute (SFPI) could have affected Eric Berne’s life. The losses of Eric Bern certainly had some impact on how it appeared and how the transactional analysis developed in the professional community. The article examines how unresolved trauma could fix personality in a certain game, and calls on the professional community to think about whether the choice of therapeutic direction could be due not only to professional, but also deeply personal foundations of the specialist; and also encourages each psychotherapist to think about what he knows about the nature of his own narcissistic part and what influence his open narcissistic deficits could have on him.