From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
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Why play games?
From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
Why play games?
- So why do people play games? Why do they move around between persecutor and victim and rescuer? What's in it for them? And I think there are two main reasons why people become games players. And one of them is their upbringing. They pick these games up from their parents. So my next door neighbor is a bit of a games player. And his daughter is already learning it. When his daughter and my daughter used to play when they were little and his daughter would go, "We got that. We got one of those. "Ours is better. We got the better one than that." And so she's already a bit of a persecutor. And that evolves into a more sophisticated game, which is oh, you shouldn't have got that one. And that's a game called Only Trying To Help You, which I'm going to come to later. And that's her father's game. So that's the first reason. I think we pick it up from our parents and we gradually learn those little twists and how to get…
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