One marriage case teaches the analysis fields
Work through the fields of a reusable reference entry in one developed case, then reuse a recognizable subset of those fields across the catalog.
Games People Play
Eric Berne · 109 weeksOne marriage case teaches the analysis fields
SHORT SOURCE EXCERPT“the scheme given below has been found the most useful one for theoretical game analysis”
After narrating If It Weren’t For You, Berne passes through Thesis, Antithesis, Aim, Roles, Dynamics, Examples, Transactional Paradigm, Moves and Advantages. Each heading explains a different question about the same case before the thesaurus begins.
Keeping one case in view lets the format itself become the lesson. Later analysis cards can be read as compressed applications of known questions, while the catalog introduction explains why treatment varies.
The source in context.
The chapter defines games and develops If It Weren’t For You as an extended worked analysis. It moves through the analysis fields before discussing origins, functions and possible classifications.
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Keeping one case in view lets the format itself become the lesson. Later analysis cards can be read as compressed applications of known questions, while the catalog introduction explains why treatment varies.
Its limit
The author calls the scheme provisional. The subsequent notation changes some fields and individual entries are not uniformly complete; neither the format nor the interpretation of this marriage is independently validated.
Source & edition
Eric Berne, Games People Play, inspected Penguin source, copyright 1964; LF line anchors in local extraction.
Supplied text, lines 825–901. The short quotation is checked against the source.
Used the complete existing whole-source AI synthesis as nominations; directly checked the original supplied source at every admitted example, its surrounding explanation, all main chapter headings and selected openings/endings. Rewrote or rejected overbroad nominations. This is a source-checked editorial pass, not a new page-by-page reading or independent-model review.
Inspected Penguin text: copyright 1964, Penguin publication history through 1968, ISBN 978-0-14-193836-3. Exact printing unverified; the local filename gives a different edition label.