Debtor is more than a game. It is a script, a plan for a whole lifetime. Try and Collect (TAC) is a mild money game commonly played by married couples. The obvious antithesis of TAC is to request immediate payment in cash.

1. Debtor -Life Game
Transactional Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Life Games
• All games have an
important and probably
decisive influence on the
destinies of the players
under ordinary social
conditions.
• But some offer more
opportunities than others
for life long careers and
are more likely to involve
relatively innocent
bystanders.
• This group may be
conveniently called Life
Games.

4. Debtor
• Debtor is more than a
game. It is a script, a
plan for a whole
lifetime.
• Most young people take
their mortgages very
seriously only in times
of stress.
• Most of the time, they
play a mild game of “ If
it weren’t for the
debts”.

5. Debtor
• Try and Collect (TAC) is
a mild money game
commonly played by
married couples and
illustrates how a game
is set up so that the
player wins whichever
way it goes.

6. Debtor
• Creditor is a form of “ Try
and Get away with it”
(TAGAWI), is sometimes
played by small landlords.
• TAC and TAGAWI players
readily recognize each other
and because of the
prospective transactional
advantages become involved
with each other.

7. Debtor
• Regardless of who wins
the money, each has
improved the other’s
position for playing
“Why does this always
happens to me?” after
it is all over.

8. Debtor
• The obvious antithesis for
TAC is to request
immediate payment of
cash.
• But a good TAC player has
methods for getting
around that, which will
work on any but the most
hard boiled creditors.

9. Debtor
• The antithesis for TAGAWI
is promptness and
honesty.
• Since both TAC and
TAGAWI players are both
professionals in every
sense of the word, an
amateur has very little
chance of winning.

10. References

11. Thank You

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