From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
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From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
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- My final tactic when you identify that you're in a game situation is cunning, to play the game back. Now, I don't really recommend this actually for most games because it's difficult, because you're up against an expert, the person you're up against has been playing this game their whole life. So it's difficult. But also you're kind of stooping to their level and, it's not very authentic so should you do it. So generally, I don't recommend it as much as I would recommend being assertive or pointing out the game, or just living with the game comfortably. But, there are a few situations where playing the game back can work really well. But before I get to the good ones, just to give you a bad one, my next door neighbor who comes around and criticizes things in my house, to my shame, I want to confess that I did it back to him. So I went round to his house one time and went, oh, see you've got your new hedge, what…
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