Game People Play

Games People Play has been listed as the best-selling, non-fiction book of the 1960s, spending over 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. It has sold over 5 million copies and likely was helped to fame by a wildly enthusiastic book review by noted author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in a 1965 issue of Life Magazine. In his book, Dr. Berne briefly covers some of the basic tenets of the transactional analysis approach, defines terms used in the approach, and lists and describes the different “games.” The author grouped his content into three sections:

• Analysis of Games

• A Thesaurus of Games

• Beyond Games

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