This document discusses consulting room games essential for professional analysts in psychiatric therapy, highlighting different psychological games such as 'stupid' and 'wooden leg'. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these dynamics in therapeutic settings. Additionally, it provides links to various related topics available on SlideShare.

1. Psychiatry
Consulting Room Games

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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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. 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”.

5. 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.”

6. 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.

7. Thank You

8. Other TA topics available on slideshare
1. Strokes - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/strokes-24081607.
2. Games People Play - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/psychological-
games-people-play.
3. Structural Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/the-ego-state-model.
4. What is TA? - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/what-ta-is
5. Cycles of Development - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-
developement-pamela-levin-transactional-analysis.
6. Stages of Cure - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stages-of-cure.
7. Transactions - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/transactions-33677298.
8. Time Structuring - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/time-structuring.
9. Life Position - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/life-position.
10. Autonomy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/autonomy-33690557.
11. Structural Pathology - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/structural-pathology.
12. Game Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/game-analysis-33725636.
13. Integrated Adult - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/integrated-adult.
14. Stroke Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stroke-economy-
33826702.