Berne assigns names meant to indicate their roles to the different players but those names didn't resonate with me, so it was hard to understand their roles during the games. He also assigns names to the different games and those I found meaningless as well. To add to my confusion, the names of the games were abbreviated with initials, and this meant that, since the name was meaningless, I had to keep looking back to see what game was being discussed. In the end, trying to read this book made me feel like a complete idiot. After all, it's a famous book with, as it says on the cover, "over five million copies sold". If I could, I would return mine. Trying to read this was a matter of wading through too many words that didn't tell me anything so I put an end to my suffering at about half way through. I am reposting this because I had technical difficulties the first time. ( )

Knjiga koja je ubrzo po objavljivanju postala globalni hit. Štampana je u preko dvadeset pet miliona primeraka, na dvadeset jezika, ipak svaka nova generacija otkriva ovu knjigu i tako se održava njena stalna popularnost. Ubraja se medu pedeset najvažnijih psiholoških knjiga objavljenih u proteklih stotinu godina.
Erik Bern, americki pshijatar i psihoanaliticar imao je dragocenu sposobnost da kompleksne pojave ljudske duše i medusobnih odnosa izrazi na jednostavan nacin. Utemeljio je transakcionu analizu (TA) kao novi, širko psihvaceni psihoterapijski pravac.

BRILJANTAN I ZABAVAN KATALOG LJUDSKOG PONAŠANJA
• Ako ste se nekada zapitali „Zašto se to meni stalno dogada?“ ovo je knjiga za vas!
• Koje transakcije medu ljudima nazivamo igrama?
• Koje igre se igraju u porodici, u partnerstvu, a koje u širem krugu?
• Da li je to „untrašnje dete“ u nama koje voli da se igra?
• Kako izbeci destruktivne igre?

It is a classic book about human behavior which explains the wild and interesting psychological games that you and everybody around you play to manipulate each other in self-destructive and divisive ways and how to tame your ego so you can quit playing and enjoy healthier relationships. ( )

one of my formative books ( )

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play

Here's the thing about this book.

I come from a family of Psychologists, social workers, ETC. I have read many books on this subject from human relationships, to dysfunctional people to transactional Analysis and human behavior, maladaptive behavior , personality disorders. I love some of these books, hate others, are in between on most.

This remains one of the few I could not complete.

Not because it is not good. It is. Not because it isn't educational. Believe me it is.

But it is also incredibly complicated. Many real life examples are used which normally I love but for such a short book, there was so much information crammed in, I simply could not understand much of it. Vert complicated writing and not in a format I could really follow.

I felt so bad not liking this! It is one of my dad's favorites but then again he is a Doctor (psychologist....although I guess many a Republican would say that doesn't count) but he actually understood my dilemma. The writing was simply to much for me.

I do recommend it . I have not had this issue in my other reads of this genre. This is the only one and I'd been looking forward to reading it. The only reason I gave up was, not because the writing is not good but because it so crammed with facts to the point my brain started to ache. I do feel bad about not finishing t his one as it does offer alot in terms of the negotiating the ins and outs of toxic or unhealthy relationships. Maybe a better fit for others who have an easier time with this type of writing. ( )