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To previous and potential donors to the Eric Berne Archive Project
In August of this year I had the privilege of visiting the Eric Berne Archive, housed at the University of California San Francisco Library, in the company of Carol Solomon, one of the principal promoters of the project. I had been sporadically involved with the archive since its inception in the years after my father’s death in 1970. Many of the original documents in the archive came from Eric’s study in the garden of his house in Carmel. I spent many hours during my yearly visits to the family home going through the dozens of chaotically packed boxes filled with every kind of item, from postcards sent from far-flung, usually exotic destinations around the globe, to...
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Dear ITAA Member, Our founder, Eric Berne, was a prolific writer and an enthusiastic observer of humanity. We already know this because much of his wisdom is preserved in published form and is freely available to us all. But there is a great deal more that he left us in various forms which has not so far seen the light of day. His legacy is still to be fully appreciated. Fortunately, a great deal of material has been preserved by the Berne family and others who were close to him and donated to the Univeristy of California where Eric Berne was a member of the faculty. Some of it is now fragile and not in a form which can easily be viewed by a wide audience. A small team...
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