While we think we are communicating with others, we are all actually playing games. Sixty years ago, the book "Games People Play" revolutionized our understanding of social interactions. With over five million copies sold, Dr. Eric Berne's classic remains as astonishing and revealing as it was on the day it was first published. We engage in games all the time: marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends, like status competitions such as "Martini" and "I Know a Better Way". There are angry couple games like "If It Weren't For You" and "Uproar", and favorite flirting games like "The Sock Game" and "Let's You and Him Fight". Dr. Berne reveals the covert maneuvers and unconscious plots that govern our personal lives. Now widely recognized, "Games People Play" is one of the most original and influential pop psychology books of our time.

"An important book... contains a wonderfully clear and entertaining catalog of the psychological plays played by humans repeatedly." - Kurt Vonnegut, Life Magazine.

"The book provides a critical analysis of the content and assumptions of many theories or explanations of human game behavior." - Michael J. Ellis.

"Although written by a professor of psychiatry as an academic book for psychotherapy more than 40 years ago, it remains highly readable for both professionals and the general public." - Michael Archer.