Haroldeveryman, I should have read further before I posted. I’m a writer & editor but not a therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist, so that word threw me. Thank you for a very interesting & enlightening post.
I am ashamed of everyone who supported nobama and also those who continue to support him. All should put their head in a vise until they hear cracking sounds. Why...oh...why do you hate America , Freedom and Americans????
My pleasure. I don’t have a psychology background niether, except for a “101” course while I was in college. Anyway, if you’re old enough to remember Eric Berne, MD, he wrote a best selling book in the 1960’s titled “Games People Play”, where “games” are a series of “transactions” that involve ulterior motives that culminate in a psychological payoff for one or all of the participants.
Games often involve a perpetrator and a patsy. Some of the numerous games he describes are “Debtor”, Kick Me”, “See what You made me do”, Schlemiel”, “ If it Weren’t For You”.
A lot of this is really hilarious, but everyone does it, often without realizing it. According to Berne, The most intense “game” players tend to be seriously disturbed people.