Games People Play vs Growing Yourself Up: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Social psychology, Interpersonal relations, Psychology
Games People Play
“OBSERVATION of spontaneous social activity, most productively carried out in certain kinds of psychotherapy groups, reveals that from time to time people show noticeable changes in posture, viewpoint, voice, vocabulary, and other aspects of behavior.”
Games People Play (1964) explores the fascinating and bizarre world of psychological games, where players unconsciously manipulate each other into acting in alienating and self-destructive ways.
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Growing Yourself Up
To be human is to be in relationships. We can't survive without them but at the same time it's in our relationships that we so easily come unravelled. There are certain relationships that seem to just do us in. Either…
The verdict
- Readers rate Growing Yourself Up highest: Growing Yourself Up 4.2 · Games People Play 3.7.
- Games People Play has the widest readership — 42507 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Games People Play | Growing Yourself Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (42507) | 4.2 (609) |
| Hardcover | 2.5 (1) | — |
| Google Books | 3.0 (4) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (97) | — |
Reception
| Games People Play | Growing Yourself Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 42507 | 609 |
| Editions | 57 | 7 |
| Citations | 810 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 10 | 1211 |
| Reading it now | 25 | 327 |
| Written reviews | — | 84 |
| Wikipedia attention | 4571 | — |
| Pages | 191 | 276 |