Games People Play (book)

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

First edition
Author	Eric Berne
Publisher	Grove Press
Publication date	1964
Pages	216
ISBN	0-345-41003-3

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships is a 1964 book by psychiatrist Eric Berne. The book was a bestseller at the time of its publication, despite drawing academic criticism for some of the psychoanalytic theories it presented. It popularized Berne's model of transactional analysis among a wide audience, and has been considered one of the first pop psychology books.