“It can be shown experimentally that eidetic perception evokes affection, and that candidness mobilizes positive feelings, so that there is even such a thing as "one-sided intimacy" - a phenomenon well known, although not by that name, to professional seducers, who are able to capture their partners without becoming involved themselves. This they do by encouraging the other person to look at them directly and to talk freely, while the male or female seducer makes only a well-guarded pretense of reciprocating.” PsychologyIntimacySeductionSocial Games Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
“Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.” PsychologyParentingParentsHuman DevelopmentDevelopmental PsychologySocial GamesSocial Schema Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
“At the end of the party, each person will have selected certain players he would like to see more of, while others he will discard, regardless of how skillfully or pleasantly they each engaged in the pastime. The ones he selects are those who seem the most likely candidates for more complex relationships—that is, games. This sorting system, however well rationalized, is actually largely unconscious and intuitive.” PsychologySocial GamesLanguage GameSocial SchemaSocial Schemata Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
“A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.” GamesPsychologyMemoryTraumaPsychoanalysisGame TheorySocial Games Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
“In technical language, an ego state may be described phenomenologically as a coherent system of feelings, and operationally as a set of coherent behavior patterns. In more practical terms, it is a system of feelings accompanied by a related set of behavior patterns. Each individual seems to have available a limited repertoire of such ego states, which are not roles but psychological realities.” PsychologyPersonalityEgoBehaviorHuman BehaviorLanguage GamesEgo States Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
