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Dr. Berne divides this into Child, Adult and Parent. These must be taken as special only when capitalized, since an adult may have parents and children as well as a Child and a Parent. The three are "ego states", which are "carefully segregated from each other, be- cause they are so different and because they are so often quite inconsistant with each other" (page 25). In TV jargon, these are "secondary personalities"; in Dr. Berne's words, "people show noticeable changes in posture, viewpoint, voice, vocabulary and other as- pects of behavior. . .often accompanied by shifts of feeling. (p.23) He continues "Each individual seems to have available a limited repertoire of such ego- states, which are not roles but psychological realit- ies". (same page)

The Games (and simpler activities, such as Pro- cedures, Rituals and Pass times, which lack ulterior motivation) are then analysed in terms of one or more of these three ego states in the initiating player and in his associates or victims. The Child appears as the aggressor in eight out of twelve of the Games which are completely analysed, and the Parent in the remainder. The Adult is not implicated at the psycho- logical level in any of the twelve Games, though usually this ego-state appears at the social level. This is almost to be expected from Dr. Berne's des- criptions of the ego-states, paraphrased as follows:

"Parent is the state of mind perceived in one's parents and other adults during childhood; it may appear directly as an adoption of their attitudes, or indirectly by behaving as they directed.

"Adult" is the faculty capable of objective data processing, and of expressing the results in a non- predjudicial manner. It also mediates between Parent and Child.

"Child" is the state of mind, manner and intent as it would have been when one was a very little child. This may be exhibited as "adapted", meaning modified

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