Games that are tenaciously placed in the therapeutic situations are the most important ones for the professional analyst to be aware of. They can be most readily studies first hand in the consulting room.

1. Consulting Room Games

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Consulting Room Games
• Games that are
tenaciously placed
in the therapeutic
situations are the
most important
ones for the
professional analyst
to be aware of.
• They can be most
readily studies first
hand in the
consulting room.

4. Greenhouse
• Recent graduates
present a so called
genuine feelings to the
group.
• The reactions of the
other members are
received very
solemnly.
• A questioning
intervention by the
therapist may be
strongly resented.

5. I’M Only Trying To Help You
• Therapist gives some
advice to the client. He
returns and reports that
the suggestions did not
have the desired
outcome.
• The therapist shrugs off
this failure with a feeling
of resignation and tries
again.
• One day, he cries out in
rage “ But I was only
trying to help you!”.

6. Indigence
• Indigents go from
agency to agency
seeking welfare funds.
• Even though they are
supposed to look for
other jobs, they devote
actually little time for it
and tend to remain in
their current position.
• Antithesis consists in
withholding the
benefits.

7. Peasant
• Socially, peasant is
played in an innocent
and a dissembled
form, both with the
motto “Gee You are
wonderful, Mr.
Murgatroyd”.
• The antithesis for the
game is that therapist
steadfastly refuses to
give advice.

8. Psychiatry
• The patient carefully
picks up weak
psychoanalysts, moving
from one to another,
demonstrating that they
cannot be cured and
meanwhile learning to
play a sharper and
sharper game of
psychiatry.
• The antithesis is the
view point that “I treat
them, but God cures
them”.

9. Stupid
• In its milder form, the
thesis of “Stupid “ is “ I
laugh with you at my
own clumsiness and
stupidity”.
• Seriously disturbed
people may play it in a
sullen way which says
“ I am stupid, that is
the way I am, so do
me something.”

10. Wooden Leg
• The thesis for wooden
leg is “What do you
expect of a man with a
wooden leg?”
• The person with real,
exaggerated or
imaginary disability is
content with his lot
and never tries to rise
above his disability.

11. Thank You

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