Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis and the author of Games People Play.
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“Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.”
Eric Berne
“No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist”
“Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.”
“A whole page of learned polysyllables may not convey as much as the statement that a certain woman is a bitch, or that a certain man is a jerk”
“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”