{"id":5314,"date":"2020-05-22T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkovema.de\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2020-11-27T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T08:31:12","slug":"the-concept-of-psychological-games-2-part-process-and-forms-of-presentation-of-psychological-games-in-transactional-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkovema.de\/en\/blog\/the-concept-of-psychological-games-2-part-process-and-forms-of-presentation-of-psychological-games-in-transactional-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The concept of psychological games in transactional analysis – Part 2: Process and forms of psychological games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept of psychological games in transactional analysis<\/h1>\n

Part 2: Procedure and forms of presentation<\/h1>\n

The drama triangle and play formulas according to Berne and Christoph-Lemke in transactional analysis<\/h2>\n<\/div>

The psychological games are a Concept of transactional analysis<\/strong><\/em>which deals with communicative patterns of a manipulative nature. These psychological games are usually destructive in nature. Eric Berne, the founder of transactional analysis, was instrumental in developing this concept and published it in his – bestseller „Adult games“<\/strong> („Games People Play“, 1964) was instrumental in the early success of transactional analysis as a School of Humanistic Psychology<\/strong><\/em> brought about.<\/p>\n

In this second part of the small series of articles on psychological games<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0it should be about the Procedure and display options<\/strong><\/em> of psychological games and thus about the Drama triangle by Stephen Karpman<\/strong><\/em> and the Game formulas from Eric Berne (Formula G)<\/strong><\/em> and the sensible and appropriate Extensions by Charlotte Christoph-Lemke<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A short series of articles on the psychological games of transactional analysis:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>
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<\/i><\/span>Part 1: Basics (definition, function and benefits as well as the intensity and levels of play)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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<\/i><\/span>Part 2: Procedure and forms of presentation of psychological games (drama triangle and game formulae according to Berne and Christoph-Lemke)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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<\/i><\/span>Part 3: Embedding psychological games in the conceptual landscape of transactional analysis<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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<\/i><\/span>Part 4: Practical conflict counselling in the face of psychological games (invitations, termination options)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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<\/i><\/span>Part 5: Selected psychological games in conflict counselling (courtroom; turmoil; overloaded; if you weren't, etc.)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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Graphical representations of psychological games.<\/h2>\n

Eric Berne once said in his legendary advertising orientation that concepts and ideas that cannot be represented graphically cannot be concepts of transactional analysis. Everything that is TA is also graphic, could be said in a nutshell, even if this oral tradition – as far as can be seen – has not been reflected in the literature on TA. Be that as it may…<\/p>\n

The communicative dynamics<\/strong>which is conceptualised as destructive patterns in psychological games, is essentially represented (graphically) in two different ways in transactional analysis.<\/p>\n