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Born to Win
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Born to Win

Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments

Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward
New American Library, 1978
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Did you ever play the games “Kick me,” “Uproar” or “Kiss Off?” Unlike chess and checkers, these pernicious psychological games have nothing do with fun – quite the opposite. Psychological games represent the hidden ploys and rote maneuvers that shape some people’s lives, as well as the harmful ways they interact. In this popular guide to transactional analysis and gestalt therapy, Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward examine the psychological games some people feel impelled to play, and the often self-destructive life scripts they believe they must follow. The authors explain how people can free themselves from such fallacious thinking through the breakthroughs offered by transactional analysis and gestalt therapy. getAbstract recommends this enriching classic to anyone who wants to understand human behavior.

Summary

Winners and Losers

Transactional analysis (TA) and gestalt therapy can explain why people behave the way they do. Created by Dr. Eric Berne, transactional analysis is a tool for analyzing and understanding human behavior. Gestalt therapy experiments, originally developed by Dr. Frederick Perls, enable people to uncover conflicting segments of their personalities and integrate them. Some individuals mistakenly think that they cannot escape the tyranny of their heredity or negative environment, but by helping them understand why they act as they do, TA and gestalt therapy can help clients change their thinking and behavior. Therapy’s goal is to help people become truly genuine, responsible, credible, acutely cognizant, joyously alive, blissfully spontaneous and self-confident. Armed with this valuable insight, people can become the winners that they were born to be.

A winner lives an autonomous life. Unfortunately, although everyone can be a winner, many people never are. Instead, they remain inauthentic, abject losers who hide behind psychological masks they have constructed. These people live in the past or the future, never the present, playing feebly at life instead...

About the Authors

Muriel James, Ed.D., marriage counselor and consultant, writes books on psychology and related topics. She is the former president of the International Transactional Analysis Association. Dorothy Jongeward, Ph.D., is a management consultant and author.

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