Afterburn (psychotherapy)

Afterburn is a psychological term coined by Eric Berne, who defined it as "the period of time before a past event is assimilated". == Berne's formulation == Eric Berne, the founding father of transactional analysis, used the term "afterburn" to indicate the effect an atypical past event continues to exert on a person's daily schedule, activities and mental state even after it is over: to "those occasions when it disturbs normal patterns for an appreciable period, rather than being assimilated into them or excluded from them by repression and other psychological mechanisms".

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