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games people play: the psychology of human relationships

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After all these years, people are still playing the sames games in life they were two generations ago. This book is just as informative and just as valuable in gaining insight as it ever was. Helping to understand why people behave the way they do goes a long way in dealing with them. In today's tough times, we need all the help we can get dealing with people under stress.

This is a book of social transactional analysis written for the lay person by a psychiatrist specializing in the field. It is chock full of "meat" and very little "fluff". The author has a dry sense of humor that is very engaging without bogging down the flow of useful information.

If you are looking for a feel-good, fluffy self help book, this is not it. If you are looking for an in-depth analysis of the structure of social interactions and the motivations behind it without a lot of fluffy-filler touchy-feelie stories, this book is IT! It is not a self-help book, so much as a field guide with descriptions to spot patterns and why folks engage in them. If you like to think about and analyze social behavior, this book will give you all you need to know!

I have Asperger's and this book was invaluable in helping me to understand the logic behind human social interactions and beliefs. Much of what people do in social situations doesn't make a lot of sense and this book analyzes and breaks down many social behaviors, both positive and negative, offers suggestions for correct participation and/or how to counter negative patterns. A very VERY useful book for anyone who finds themselves pondering the sometimes unassailable mysteries of the general "unwritten" social rules of society.

This is must reading if you are in the recovery field, but it is a basic book and reading a 20 or so other books relating to it are must reading to grasp the basic concepts involved in transactional analysis. If you are thinking of buying this book as a self-help guide, yes, it will add to and aid you in your studies of pop-psychology. Remember, a psychiatrist wrote this so he was thinking of human physiology as it relates to TA, as a psychoanalist would.

This book was recommended to me by a psychiatrist when I complained about troubles in some of my family relationships. While I find the writing to be too academic (and the author a bit full of himself), if you cut through all of that there is some good and useful information here. Not an easy read but one that is worth it.

I bought this for a Psycology paper I needed to write. I should have gotten my PhD before attempting to navigate this read. I wrote my report, but this book uses terms that are far more advanced than a college student in Psyc 101 has covered. Written in 1964, there are references that I did not understand. My suggestion: Choose another read if you need this for class. (I got a B on my paper)

I was very upset when this book arrived. I would NEVER order from this particular place again. All other books that I've received from Amazon, regardless of whether old or new have arrived in the condition promised. I work in a used bookstore to benefit Hospice and we would throw out a book that was brought in for resale in the condition of this book. It was advertised as "good" and it smelled, had ripped pages, pages falling out because of the broken binding. VERY UNHAPPY!!

I will continue to order from Amazon but if I see a book from the company that sent this one ~ NOT!!