Games People Play (Penguin Life) About the Author Eric Berne was a prominent psychiatrist and bestselling author. After inventing his ground-breaking Transactional Analysis, he continued to develop and apply this new methodology leading him to publish Games People Play. This became a runaway success and Berne leaves a remarkable legacy of over 30 other books and articles, as well as the founding of the International Transactional Analysis Association. Dr Berne's other works include Principles of Group Treatment, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis' and What Do You Say After You Say Hello? He died in 1970.