This article describes a case in which inpatient transactional analysis treatment focusing on the client's repetitive pattern of destructive games allowed him to succeed in directing his life script in a healthier direction. The author also summarizes the central ideas about games and rackets from the transactional analysis literature and then uses the case to illustrate her own thinking on the subject.
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