Description: From inside the book jacket hinge: GAMES PEOPLE PLAYThe Psychology ofHuman RelationshipsBy Eric Berne, M.D.People tend to live their lives by consistently playing out certain "games" in their interpersonal relationships. They play these games for a variety of reasons: to avoid confronting reality, to conceal ulterior motives, to rationalize their activities, or to avoid actual participation. These games -if they are not destructive-- are both desirable and necessary, and in the present volume Dr. Berne offers the reader a thorough, fascinating analysis of thirty-six games, which he breaks down into seven major categories: life games, which transcend a specific mode of response in a given situation and pervade one's every action; marital games, which two people may utilize to sustain a frustrating or unrewarding life--a favorite marital game is "Frigid Woman," in which one of the two parties provokes an argument, leading to anger and alienation of feelings, in order to avoid sex; sexual games, in which someone provokes sexual reactions in another person and then, as in the game called "Rapo," acts as though he (or she) is the innocent victim; exhibitionism "The Stocking Game"--is another common sexual game; party games, which by definition are highly social and move ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Eric Berne
Publisher: Grove Press
Topic: Psychology
Subject: Psychology
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