Games People Play By Dr. Eric Berne

Games People Play
The Psychology of Human Relationships

In this book Games People Play, Dr. Eric Berne has put into context the unthinkable issues underlining the psychology of human relationships. He started the book by over viewing the human brain function, the ego states of mind, and different components of each individual’s personality before proceeding to the main menu “Games” or Transactions.

The human brain is the organ or organizer of the psychic life, and its products are organized and stored on the form of Ego States.

Psychic Attitudes: in a given individual a certain set of behaviour patterns correspond to one state of mind, while another set is related to a different psychic attitude, often inconsistent with the first. These changes give rise to the idea of the Ego States.

There are three categories of Ego states: Parent, Adult and Child

-Ego States, which resemble those of parental figure.

-Ego States which are autonomously directed toward objective evaluation of the reality.

-And Ego States, which represent archaic relics, still-active ego states which were fixated in early childhood.

These observations give rise to certain diagnostic statements, according to Dr. Berne

The complete personality of any person includes his/her Parental, Adult and Child ego states. They are carefully separated from each other, because they are often very inconsistent with each other.

Once the above roots of human behaviour are understood, the game playing or the situational part is much easier and fun to absorb. It is an excellent book, never went out of print for 40 decades straight.

Hippocrates' Quotes...

Hippocrates' Great Quotes on Health

Hippocrates of Coss was an ancient Greek physician and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the Western father of medicine in recognition of his lasting contribution to the field as the founder of Hippocratic School of Medicine.

"Rest, as soon as there is pain, is a great restorative in all disturbances of the body."
-Hippocrates

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
-Hippocrates

"Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure the patient with food."
-Hippocrates

"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
-Hippocrates

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."
-Hippocrates

"Walking is [hu]man's best medicine."
-Hippocrates

"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm."
-Hippocrates

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-Hippocrates

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
-Hippocrates

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
-Hippocrates

"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
-Hippocrates

"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
-Hippocrates

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
-Hippocrates

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
-Hippocrates

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
-Hippocrates

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
-Hippocrates

"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
-Hippocrates

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
-Hippocrates

The Human Brain Book By Rita Carter

“The Human Brain is the CEO of the Company called the Human Body”

The human brain is referred to as Executive System by psychologists and neuroscientists, because of its responsibility for planning, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, rule acquisition, initiating appropriate actions and inhibiting inappropriate actions, and selecting relevant sensory information. Undoubtedly, the brain is an amazing and precious organ; it does all the work needed in order for our body to function accordingly, hence the need to raise our curiosity about it.

The Human Brain Book is a must own family’s book because it is easily, concisely and clearly presented in a language everyone can understand. It is a colourful book with 3-D images all along. Every single aspect of the human brain is displayed from its history to the newest break through in Neuroscience, from simplicity to complexity (nerve impulse – the bionic arm/eye function). This book serves as a proof of how hard neuroscientists are working to uncover the mysteries of the human brain.

I have no words to describe how much knowledge an ordinary person can get out of this book, because it illustrates all the structures, functions and disorders of the human brain. It is truly a satiable book; it will satisfy your appetite for knowing how your brain works and breaks.

Rita Carter is a science and medical writer who contributes to many publications, including New Scientist and many newspapers. She has twice been awarded the medical Journalists’ Association prize for her outstanding contribution to medical journalism. She is the author of several books that have been published internationally, including Consciousness, Multiplicity: the new Science of Personality, and Mapping the Mind, which was shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize [now the Royal Society Prize for Science Books]. Rita also lectures about the brain at seminars, conferences, and workshops around the world.

Psychiatric Power/Knowledge By Michael Foucault

Lectures at the College de France
1973 – 1974

This astonishing book conveys collections of lectures delivered by Michael Foucault during the period of 1973-1974 at the College de France. Foucault was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the seventies and eighties, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

In the terminology of the College de France, the professors do not have students but only auditors.

Michael Foucault’s courses were held every Wednesday from January to march. The huge audiences made up of students, teachers, researchers, and the curious, including many who came from outside France, required two amphitheaters of College de France. These lectures are overwhelmingly informative and insightful.

This is absolutely a must own book, because of its richer content. It provides any reader with element of biographical, ideological, and political context about this extraordinary and controversial discipline (Psychiatry).

Psychiatric Power, the course delivered in 1973 and 1974, is edited by Jacques Lagrange

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain; they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our

The Leader Who Had No Title By Robin Sharma

A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life.


The leader who had no title is simply fabulous, elegantly and hilariously written by Robin Sharma. Exactly as the title states, Robin is kind of reminding all of us without any exception that we are accountable for our own lives’ journeys. This minute book has a wealth of insightful information about all the traits required in becoming a Leader Without a Title, stuff such as being real, authentic and certain in our deeds. The main message of leadership in this book is conveyed as a story; where a young man (the hero) meets his mentor who subsequently introduces him to the amazing four teachers. So these life’s instructors and their unique teaching methods and the young man is all what this book dissolves in (four chapters-four teachers). It’s really incredible to see how Sharma put everything in such a simplistic and meaningful four acronyms: I.M.I.G.E – S.H.I.N.E – S.P.A.R.K.S – H.U.M.A.N. This is great book for those who have the inner drive of becoming something greater in life and making a difference in their own pace, it is a true motor impulse.

In this book who will learn:

• How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position

• A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change

• The real secrets of intense innovation

• An instant strategy to build a great team and become a “merchant of wow” with your customers

• Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field

• Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unstable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life

Regardless of what you do within your organization and current circumstances of life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim the staggering power, as well as transform your life-and the world around you-in the process.


Robin Sharma is one of the world’s most highly respected leadership experts. He is devoted to mission of helping organizations develop people Who Lead Without a Title so that they win in this period of intense change. His clients include Microsoft, GE, FedEx, IBM, Nike, NASA, Yale University, and The Young Presidents Organization. Sharma’s books, such as the Monk WHO Sold His Ferrari and The Greatness Guide, have topped bestseller lists across the globe and have sold millions of copies in more than seventy languages. They have been embrace by rock stars, royalty, and many celebrity CEOs.

Sharma is also the cofounder of 960vets.com, an innovative online support resource that help U.S veterans successfully reintegrate into civil life.