Survival Games Personalities Play, Paperback

People are most likely to engage in Survival-Game-Playing when they are stressed and finding it increasingly difficult to cope with life's challenges. Whether someone utilizes the game of Blackmail, Complain, Robot, or Masquerade, depends upon that person's personality, or temperament type. Each of these games represents a different way of protecting oneself in the face of life's adversities. Over time, as these protective behaviors escalate in frequency and intensity, they can become maladaptive and cause suffering for the individuals who are engaging in these behaviors and their family, friends, and coworkers. Using case examples from her practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist, Dr. Delunas describes the games associated with each of the four personality, or temperament types as described by Keirsey and Bates in the book, Please Understand Me--the Artisan (SP), Guardian (SJ), Rational (NT), and Idealist (NF). She explains the different reasons why each of the personalities is most likely to employ survival tactics. And, she identifies those methods that are often most effective in helping each of the four personality types to stop engaging in Survival Games at home and in the workplace.

About the Author:

Eve Delunas, PhD, LMFT has been applying psychological type theory to catalyze positive changes in clinical and organizational settings for forty years. She is internationally recognized for her work on the relationship between personality and dysfunctional behavior, as presented in her book, Survival Games Personalities Play. Eve first became interested in type and temperament while pursuing her Masters Degree in Counseling as a student of David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates. She worked with David Keirsey for over ten years. Her newest book, New Science, New Brain, New You, presents methods for reconfiguring our brain's learned default settings to move out of the "survival mode." In addition to offering workshops internationally, Eve has been an instructor of Graduate Counseling at five universities. Recently, as a Collegiate Professor for the University of Maryland, European Division, she was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award.