Research Catalog

Title

What do you say after you say hello? : the psychology of human destiny / Eric Berne.

Author

Berne, Eric.

Publication

New York : Grove Press, Inc., ©1972.

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Details

Description

xvii, 457 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Berne found that each person, in early childhood--under the powerful influence of his parents--writes his own script that will determine the general course of his life. That script dictates what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, even what kind of bed he will die in. Most of all, it determines whether he will be a winner or a loser, a spendthrift or a skinflint, a tower of strength or a doomed alcoholic. Some people, says Berne, have scripts that call for them to fail in their professions, or to be repeatedly disappointed in love, or to be chronic invalids. Here, he demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works, and how each of us can break free of it to help us attain real autonomy and true fulfillment.

Subject

• Transactional analysis
• Social psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychotherapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology, Social
• Transactional Analysis
• Psychotherapy
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• social psychology
• psychoanalysis
• Social psychology
• Transactional analysis
• Transaktionsanalyse

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Principles of transactional analysis -- Human destiny -- Types of scripts -- Some typical scripts -- Cinderella -- How is the script possible -- Transmission of the script -- The preliminary phases -- The script signs -- The script in treatment -- The decisive intervention -- Three histories -- Objections to the theory -- Methodological problems -- The script check list.

ISBN

• 0394479955
• 9780394479958
• 0553149369
• 9780553149364

LCCN

77187888

OCLC

• ocm00376081
• 376081
• SCSB-112624

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library