Forty years ago,\u00a0Games People Play<\/i>\u00a0revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne\u2019s classic is as astonishing\u2013and revealing\u2013as it was on the day it was first published. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Dr. James R. Allen, president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s brilliant\u00a0Life<\/i>\u00a0magazine review from 1965.
\nWe play games all the time\u2013sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like \u201cMartini\u201d (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like \u201cIf It Weren\u2019t For You\u201d and \u201cUproar,\u201d to flirtation favorites like \u201cThe Stocking Game\u201d and \u201cLet\u2019s You and Him Fight,\u201d Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
\nExplosive when it first appeared,\u00a0Games People Play<\/i>\u00a0is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It\u2019s as powerful and eye-opening as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forty years ago,\u00a0Games People Play<\/i>\u00a0revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne\u2019s classic is as astonishing\u2013and revealing\u2013as it was on the day it was first published. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Dr. James R. Allen, president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s brilliant\u00a0Life<\/i>\u00a0magazine review from 1965.
\nWe play games all the time\u2013sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like \u201cMartini\u201d (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like \u201cIf It Weren\u2019t For You\u201d and \u201cUproar,\u201d to flirtation favorites like \u201cThe Stocking Game\u201d and \u201cLet\u2019s You and Him Fight,\u201d Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
\nExplosive when it first appeared,\u00a0Games People Play<\/i>\u00a0is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It\u2019s as powerful and eye-opening as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[18,29,32,33,34,35,41],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-502","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-bestseller","product_cat-non-fiction","product_cat-personal-development-self-help","product_cat-personal-growth","product_cat-philosophy","product_cat-psychology","product_cat-relationships","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}