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I consider this book a clear and readable introduction to the application of the game-analogy to the understanding of human relations; the method of analysis and the recognition of specific patterns. The first chapters were for me therefore the most interesting. But the specific examples that Berne gives and that fill the greater part of this work, unavoidably seem to carry too much the characteristics of human relations as they were at the beginning of the sixties when the book was written. It could therefor not evaluate and integrate in the examples for instance the emancipation of women in the West and other trends and developments, that changed relations of dependency and authority over the years and the new games that resulted from it.