Eric Berne for the modern Brit?

Question

A while ago I read Eric Berne's 'Games People Play' and found it quite a useful tool for comprehending people's behaviour patterns.

There are, however, a few problems I have with it. His analysis really had to 'get inside' his subjects and cultural beings and he quite rightly dispensed with the objectivite language of clinical psychology.

The idiomatic language he used was rather alien to me not just in purely linguistic terms but also in the terms of the culture it drew from. I had on top of that the time gap as his book was first published in 1964.

So can anyone recommend to me a modern British 'Games People Play'.

TY

Answer 1

Sorry, I can't come up with a new version, however Berne's ideas are still applicable today...