- Game theory, Interpersonal relations, Social interaction, Transactional analysis
Games People Play (1964) explores the fascinating and bizarre world of psychological games, where players unconsciously manipulate each other into acting in alienating and self-destructive ways.
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- Author
- Eric Berne
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Random House Inc (P), Vintage, LITUR
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- French, Russian, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780345170460
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“OBSERVATION of spontaneous social activity, most productively carried out in certain kinds of psychotherapy groups, reveals that from time to time people show noticeable changes in posture, viewpoint, voice, vocabulary, and other aspects of behavior.”
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