Games People Play

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

GENESIS • INFANTS NEED TOUCH • PROCESS CALLED STROKING • HELPS THEM DEVELOP INTO MATURED PERSON • TOUCH DEPRIVATION – MARASMUS – A TYPE OF DEHYDRATION • STROKE STARVATION – DISRUPTION OF CEREBRAL DEVELOPMENT ANGER

GENESIS • HUNGER FOR PHYSICAL STROKE – NEED FOR RECOGNITION • POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE BUT A MUST • BRUTALISED CHILD AVOIDS • OVERINDULGED SEEKS EXCESSIVE STROKES • NEED LINKED TO LIFE POSITIONS

GAMES • • • • • •

RECURRING SET OF TRANSACTIONS REPETITIVE SUPERFICIALLY RATIONAL CONCEALED MOTIVES PLAYED FROM ALL STATES ADULT GAMES ARE CALCULATED ONES

WHY PLAY GAMES • • • •

TIME PASS REAFFIRM LIFE POSITIONS TO SEEK ATTENTION TO ENACT PREDETERMINED LIFE DRAMA • EMERGE OUT OF NEEDS – VARIETY OF THEM

NEEDS FOR PLAYING GAMES • MOST IMPORTANT NEEDS – NEED FOR STROKES – DISCUSSED EARLIER – NEED FOR STRUCTURING TIME TO AVOID BOREDOM – BOREDOM AFFECTS HUMANS EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY

STRUCTURING TIME • WAYS – WITHDRAWAL – RITUALS – PASS TIME

– GAMES – ACTIVITIES – INTIMACY

END OBJECTIVE OF GAMES • NEED SATISFACTION – FOR STROKES – FOR STRUCTURING TIME

• REAFFIRMING LIFE POSITIONS • GAMES CAN HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT • THEY CAN ALSO HAVE DESTRUCTIVE IMPACT

GAMES • • • • • • •

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GAMES • • • • • • •

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SCRIPTING • GAMES ARE PLAY BY INDIVIDUAL SCRIPT • SCRIPTING IS DONE AS A CHILD • TRANSACTION BETWEEN HIM PARENTS / PARENT FIGURES • AS THE CHILD GROWS HE PICKS UP HIS ROLE – ROLES CAN BE CHANGED • GETS OTHERS TO PLAY COMPLIMENTARY ROLES • IN SCRIPTING A PERSON, NO OF PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED

ROLES • • • •

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