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Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis

Eric Berne

Why do people keep replaying the same social scenes that end in hurt, and how can you step out of them?

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Author
Eric Berne

Why read it

  • You will recognize the games people play in marriage, at parties and in daily life, and the payoff behind them
  • You will be able to tell a real conversation from a ritual or a pastime
  • You will see what being free of such games would look like: awareness, spontaneity and intimacy

Who it is for

  • A person who keeps ending up in the same argument
  • A coach or counselor looking for a vocabulary of common patterns
  • A manager puzzled by office dramas that never end

Contents

  1. New Introduction: As if Suddenly a Door
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. PART I: ANALYSIS OF GAMES
  5. Chapter 1: Structural Analysis
  6. Chapter 2: Transactional Analysis
  7. Chapter 3: Procedures and Rituals
  8. Chapter 4: Pastimes
  9. Chapter 5: Games
  10. PART II: A THESAURUS OF GAMES
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 6: Life Games
  13. Chapter 7: Marital Games
  14. Chapter 8: Party Games
  15. Chapter 9: Sexual Games
  16. Chapter 10: Underworld Games
  17. Chapter 11: Consulting Room Games
  18. Chapter 12: Good Games
  19. PART III: BEYOND GAMES
  20. Chapter 13: The Significance of Games
  21. Chapter 14: The Players
  22. Chapter 15: A Paradigm
  23. Chapter 16: Autonomy
  24. Chapter 17: The Attainment of Autonomy
  25. Chapter 18: After Games, What?
  26. Appendix: The Classification of Behavior
  27. Commentary

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