Eric Berne

What Do You Say After You Say Hello? explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script - a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person he will marry, how many children he will have, and even what sort of bed he will die in... What Do You Say After You Say Hello? demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works and, more important, how anyone can improvise or change his script to make a happy ending...

INTRODUCTION: TALKING ABOUT SEX Sex Is Wet • The Mother-Cuffers Obscenity for Fun • Obscemly and Love PART I: SEX AND SEX ORGANS WHY SEX IS NECESSARY What Is Sex? But What Is It All About THE SEXUAL ACT How It Begins • Male Power Female Power • The Orgasm THE EXPLOITATION OF THE SEX ORGANS The Exploitation of the Penis The Exploitation ot the Vagina The Exploitation of the Orgasm Sexual Deviations PART II: SEX AND PEOPLE FORMS OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP The Turn-On • Lechery Intimacy • Love SEXUAL GAMES Parental Programming Some Sexual Games Why People Play Games SEX AND WELL-BEING OR PREVENTIVE INTIMACY . Physical Contact and Physical Health Sex and Intimacy • Sex and Marriage

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.

A python named Shardlu rolls down the hill one day into a flowery valley and has many adventures with the strange animals and people who live there.