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Sex Games People Play: Intimacy Blocks, Games, and Scripts

Pages 103-116
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This paper draws from the presentation “Sex Games People Play” before an audience of 80 at the World TA 2005 Summer Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Included in this paper are new, unpublished TA theories on sex and intimacy including: the Sexual Winner's and Loser's Loops, the new field of Intimacy Analysis, the Intimacy Winner's and Loser's Loops, and five new versions of the Drama Triangle at the psychological and script levels.

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Stephen B. Karpman

Stephen B. Karpman, M.D., is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), was twice vice president of the ITAA, and served on the board of trustees for 11 years. He was a close colleague of Dr. Berne, attending his Tuesday night seminars weekly for 6 years, and one of the grandfather founding members of the ITAA. He was the first editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal and has 30 transactional analysis publications and was twice the winner of the Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award, once for the Drama Triangle in 1972 and again in 1979 for transactional Options. Dr. Karpman has taught widely across the United States and in a dozen countries. Academically, he is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF, which is in San Francisco, where he also has his private practice. His articles, many out of print, are available on the free Web site at www.KarpmanDramaTriangle.com. All comments to this article are invited by e-mail or on the Web site.
 

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