Games People Play - The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis

Thus all three aspects of the personality have a high survival and living value, and it is only when one or the other of them disturbs the healthy balance that analysis and reorganization are indicated. Appendix: The Classification of Behavior Commentary New Introduction: As if Suddenly a Door James R. Here the other members refused to play the persecutory roles White assigned to them; she was unable to tolerate this antithetical behavior, in spite of everyone’s efforts to reinforce whatever insight she had already obtained. One woman played GYWP with her psychiatrist without any alleviation of symptoms; she finally left him with many salaams and apologies.