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Attached vs Games People Play: Which Should You Actually Read?
Both books live on the same shelf: Psychology & People. Both are free to read here, in full, right now. Attached (2010, Amir Levine and Rachel Heller) argues: Adult love runs on attachment styles, secure, anxious or avoidant, formed in childhood and running s… Games People Play (1964, Eric Berne) argues: Every conversation has two layers: the overt exchange and the hidden game underneath. Berne maps the…
Attached
Levine and Heller translate attachment theory for adult romance. Everyone has an attachment style: secure (comfortable with intimacy and autonomy, about half of people), anxious (craves closeness, fears abandonment, hypervigilant to threat) or avoidant (equate
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Games People Play
Berne's transactional analysis splits every personality into three ego states: Parent (rules and shoulds), Adult (here-and-now reality) and Child (feelings and old adaptations). A transaction is complementary when both people talk from matching states, and cro
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Read Attached if you want the new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and k
Read Games People Play if you want the psychology of human relationships. we spend our whole lives playin
The honest order for most readers: start with Attached for the base, then go deeper with the other. Both summaries are free, no paywall, in 26 languages.
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