Top Gun Games
When Therapists Compete
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20177923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Persi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 144-152 |
| Publication date | 1992-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036215379202200304 |
| OpenAlex | W1776149734 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
“Top gun” games are distinguished by their competitiveness and underlying maladaptive narcissism. Therapists who play these games permit envy, fear of humiliation, and exaggerated desires for recognition to push them into competitive conflicts with each other. Emotions associated with experiences of inadequacy and superiority are payoffs that aggravate existing narcissistic injuries and act as incentives for renewed game play. Top gun games seriously compromise effective helping because they introduce destructive competition among professionals and shift the focus from the client's needs to the unmet intrapsychic needs of the therapist. Despite their destructiveness, Top gun games continue because of their advantages and because therapists are protected from insight by the same narcissistic processes that contribute to game play
Compromise · Humiliation · Incentive · Narcissism · Political science · Law · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
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Competitive Structures — Their Development and Diagnosis
Psychodiagnosis of Personality Disorders
The Bilateral and Ongoing Nature of Games
Diagnosis with Millon's Personality System
Differential Diagnosis of the Borderline Personality
Game Analysis and Racket Analysis
Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personalities
Forms and Transformations of Narcissism
Borderline Personality Organization
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |