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Beyond the Concepts

Celebrating Eric Berne’s Legacy

Pages 8-12
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This text was presented as the acceptance speech for the 2015 Eric Berne Memorial Award during the ITAA Conference in Sydney, Australia. In addition to thanking the usual suspects, the speech mainly reflects on two aspects of the importance of this award. One is Eric Berne’s creative and provocative writing style, which left a huge legacy, and the other is the process of lack of integration he left with his early death.

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Servaas van Beekum

Author Biography
Servaas van Beekum, drs., is a social scientist with a background in analytic, humanistic, and systemic modalities. He is a Training and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a psychotherapist (PACFA reg.), a supervisor and executive coach (EASC/AAoS reg.), and a consultant to organizations. He is the past president of the European Association of Transactional Analysis and the ITAA and works globally as a guest trainer, author, speaker, and consultant. Servaas is a cofounder of Group Relations Nederland (1992) and Group Relations Australia (2005), associations that study unconscious group process in organizations. He lives in Sydney, where he has a private practice as a psychotherapist, executive coach, and supervisor and where he is the director of the consulting training arm of the Australian Centre of Integrative Studies (ACIS). He has recently joined the Sydney-based consulting firm Aspirall. Servaas can be reached at 158 Wellington Street, Bondi/Sydney 2026, New South Wales, Australia; email: .