Sublime

The games are classified into families according to the situations in which they most commonly occur: Life Games, Marital Games, Party Games, Sexual Games and Underworld Games; then comes a section for professionals on Consulting Room Games, and finally, some examples of Good Games.

Berne labeled networks that develop early in life as Child ego states. When we activate one of these, we act like the child we once were. Networks which represent the internalization of the people who raised us, as we experienced them, Berne named Parent. When in Parent we think, feel, and act like one of our parents or like someone who took their

Eric Berne conceptualised transactional analysis as a social psychiatry, meaning a model of human development that was based on interpersonal interactions. Berne emphasised that people can only keep their ego states intact and coherent when they are in continuous interaction with the outside world. Then the boundaries between the ego states remain

Therapists use three sources of information when working with patients: What the patients say, what they do, and how we feel while we’re sitting with them.