Games People Play

Apr 29, 2025 3:47 PM

Author:Eric Berne

Games People Play

'If you're going to read one psychology book in your lifetime... it should be his one' - Neil Hunter, Amazon Review

Fed up of feeling controlled at work?

Feel trapped in a toxic relationship but don't know how to escape?

Always feel like you lose the argument even if you know deep down you're right?

Widely recognised as the most original and influential psychology book of our time,Games People Play has helped millions of people better understand human basic social interactions and relationships.

We play games all the time; relationship games; power games with our bosses and competitive games with our friends. In this book, Berne reveals the secret ploys and manoeuvres that rule our lives and how to combat them.

Giving you the keys to unlock the psychology of others and yourself, this classic, entertaining and life-changing book will open up the door to honest communication and teach you how to get the most out of life.

Reviews

Britton has done hugely important work that saves lives. He is fascinating. His book is compelling

—— The Sunday Times

A unique understanding of the dark side of the human condition

—— Red

Precise, considered, methodical. His skill is to go beyond the guise, to understand and inhabit the psychopathic mind

—— Independent

A firm favourite with businessfolk

—— Daily Mirror

highly influential

—— Financial Times magazine

designed to help people thrive during periods of change

—— Sunday Times

a motivational book to help you deal with change in your life

—— Guardian

Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory

—— Andy Martin , Independent

[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists

—— Guardian

[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun

—— Freddy Gray , The Catholic Herald

A day-glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal!

—— The Washington Post

Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!

—— Terry Southern

Not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book... The pushing, ballooning heart of the matter... Vibrating dazzle!

—— The New York Times

An American Classic

—— Newsweek

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