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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive Isn't "Games people play" the biggest psychology blockbuster in American publishing history?Posted by Diarmuid on January 04, 2002 at 09:45:20: In Reply to: Sounds interesting posted by Elizabeth on January 04, 2002 at 00:47:58: Surprised people so unfamiliar with it. It says 60 million copies sold. Even if that's only half true, that puts it into the same sales league as the Bible. I've seen references to it all over the place. I got the impression that a "game" is usually joyless, pretty much always destructive, and fundamentally dishonest. A typical example of a game described in a book is where a husband more or less deliberately makes or allows his wife screw up (by failing to take simple, obvious precautions) just so he can get pissed at her and start a shouting argument. On the surface, he's shouting because of the fuck-up, but in reality he wanted the fuck-up to happen so he'd have an excuse to shout at her. In fact, he engineered the situation towards this fuck-up by giving her tasks that were obviously beyond her skill. This is a half-assed description of the book. Primer seems to know it better. It's pretty short and an interesting read. I look upon these games as mini-tragedies caused by a lack of honesty and logic. Well, of course a four will look at it that way. : : I didn't understand the phrase's meaning til I read "Games people play" six months ago. It's from a pre-women's rights, pre-sexual revolution era so it's quite dated. But it's got a lot of positives. : : It's sad to think of people doing this, subconsciously engineering conflicts. Worse, it's *illogical*. In a world where the population is hostile or indifferent, you need a damn good reason for two people to fight... : What kind of head games are we talking about?
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