Despite its success as a pop-psychology offering in the seventies and dialogues with titles such as, "Now I've Got You, You S.O.B.", this is a serious and valuable work. Based on the Freudian concepts of Id, Ego, and Super Ego, Berne states that all comunnications may be classified as being Child, Adult or Parent in nature. We may be drawn into the "game" that another creates unless we are able to recognize the nature of the communication and convert it into an Adult to Adult dialogue.It is advisable to read this book out of sequence and to digest the theoretical explanation in the appendix before reading the games.In summary, a very useful manual for maintaining rational discussion in all interpersonal situations.